Middle East: Abu Dhabi Airports Selects BETA Technologies To Charge Its Advanced Air Mobility Network Across The Emirate

Abu Dhabi Air­ports has cho­sen BETA Tech­nolo­gies to deploy its cer­ti­fied Charge Cube and Bat­tery Ther­mal Man­age­ment Sys­tem as it rolls out an Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty ecosys­tem across the Emi­rates.

This year, Abu Dhabi Air­ports was award­ed a man­date to lead the devel­op­ment of infra­struc­ture, oper­a­tions, and com­mer­cial readi­ness for a strate­gic net­work of ver­ti­ports across the UAE.

It has select­ed BETA’s elec­tric charg­ers and ther­mal man­age­ment sys­tems to pow­er its first two sites — Al Bateen Exec­u­tive Air­port and Zayed Inter­na­tion­al Air­port, where ini­tial UAE air mobil­i­ty routes will launch. BETA will also pro­vide onsite tech­ni­cal con­sult­ing on equip­ment and instal­la­tion, as well as main­te­nance sup­port and train­ing.

Chad Nichols, BETA’s Charge Oper­a­tions Lead, said: “BETA is excit­ed to con­tin­ue the inter­na­tion­al deploy­ment of our charg­ing solu­tions. We believe this com­mit­ment to per­ma­nent ground infra­struc­ture shows the strength and momen­tum of our indus­try.

“Ours is the world’s first and only cer­ti­fied elec­tric avi­a­tion charg­ing and ther­mal man­age­ment solu­tion, and we are excit­ed to work with Abu Dhabi Air­ports to deploy it through­out the region to sup­port elec­tric flights.”

Air­port con­nec­tiv­i­ty is the crit­i­cal first step in enabling a func­tion­ing AAM ecosys­tem. BETA’s infra­struc­ture solu­tions will enable con­nec­tiv­i­ty — and with their mul­ti­modal, inter­op­er­a­ble char­ac­ter­is­tics, they will encour­age the adop­tion of elec­tric air­craft and ground vehi­cles.

This marks the first step in bring­ing the future of mobil­i­ty to real­i­ty in the UAE and anoth­er land­mark in the inter­na­tion­al expan­sion of BETA’s charge net­work, which includes more than 50 sites in the U.S. and Cana­da.

BETA’s charg­ing sys­tem is com­mis­sioned at Al Bateen Exec­u­tive, with Zayed Inter­na­tion­al to fol­low. With the first region­al eVTOL air­craft flights expect­ed in the Emi­rate by 2026, Abu Dhabi Air­ports’ roadmap out­lines a phased roll­out of up to 14 pub­lic ver­ti­ports locat­ed at key urban and tran­sit loca­tions.

Ele­na Sor­li­ni, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor and Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer at Abu Dhabi Air­ports, added: “Our col­lab­o­ra­tion with BETA ensures the robust infra­struc­ture need­ed to make Abu Dhabi’s air taxi net­work a com­mer­cial real­i­ty, safe, sus­tain­able, and built for the future.”

BETA has built and flown its fam­i­ly of ALIA air­craft, con­sist­ing of both con­ven­tion­al fixed-wing elec­tric air­craft and eVTOL air­craft, more than 83,000 nau­ti­cal miles. This includes mul­ti­ple trips across the Unit­ed States.

The com­pa­ny also deploy­ing a net­work of charg­ing infra­struc­ture across the US and Cana­da, with more than 50 sites online across both coun­tries. This allows BETA to serve a cus­tomer base across car­go and logis­tics, defense, pas­sen­ger and med­ical end mar­kets.