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EHang released a new video last Fri­day via Twit­ter, show­ing its EH216 AAV fly­ing over dif­fer­ent ter­rains in var­i­ous parts of the world. These coun­tries are:- Chi­na, USA, Japan, South Korea, Qatar, Nether­lands, Aus­tria, UAE, Esto­nia, Spain and Indone­sia.

This is a great accom­plish­ment and shows how far ahead the devel­op­ment of the AAV com­pa­ny is, when com­pared to its com­peti­tors. As EHang sup­port­ers know, the com­pa­ny is 90 per­cent of the way towards full cer­ti­fi­ca­tion approval from the CAAC and the begin­ning of a ful­ly-fledged com­mer­cial life.

We con­tin­ue soar­ing through the skies!
As of May, the #EH216 series #AAV had con­duct­ed over 37,000 safe test flights across 12 coun­tries in Asia, Europe and the Amer­i­c­as which is among the high­est flight records in the glob­al #eVTOL indus­try.
More to come. Stay tuned with EHang! pic.twitter.com/S7eYuMbBQd

— EHang (@ehang) June 2, 2023

Yet, giv­en there is still the remain­ing and most crit­i­cal 10 per­cent of the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion left, EHang and busi­ness sup­port­ers remain gung-ho about the air­craft’s future prospects. The lat­est exam­ple of this, is news from akihabara.com that Mizushi­ma Aero & Space Indus­try Clus­ter Study Group (MASC) has begun con­struc­tion of a build­ing in West Japan that will serve as an edu­ca­tion­al and dis­play show­room for the eVTOL indus­try, in par­tic­u­lar, for EHang. A ground­break­ing cer­e­mo­ny was held on May 29th at the con­struc­tion loca­tion in Kurashi­ki city, Okaya­ma, where close to twen­ty peo­ple attend­ed.

The facil­i­ty, locat­ed in the Bikan His­tor­i­cal Quar­ter, attracts many domes­tic and inter­na­tion­al tourists, and will con­sist of a sin­gle glass-enclosed two-storey build­ing with a total floor area of about 290 sq. metres. It is sched­uled to be com­plet­ed in Octo­ber. This is sim­i­lar to a car show­room, but for eVTOLs instead.

EHang 216 Show­room

The pri­ma­ry attrac­tion will be an oper­a­tional EH216 pas­sen­ger AAV. The build­ing will also fea­ture a Vir­tu­al Real­i­ty exhib­it where par­tic­i­pants can expe­ri­ence sim­u­la­tions of fly­ing with­in the said eVTOL.

MASC, who has been organ­is­ing, along with its Chi­nese part­ners, some of the first eVTOL flights in Japan, aim to put the air­craft, ini­tial­ly, into prac­ti­cal use as a means of trans­porta­tion for peo­ple liv­ing on the remote islands of the Seto Inland Sea, as well as to pro­vide sight­see­ing tours for vis­i­tors.

Koji Kiri­no, Hon­orary Chair­man of MASC, told a nation­al broad­cast­er that the show­room will become, “The ide­al place to let many peo­ple know about fly­ing cars. We want this to lead to the devel­op­ment of air logis­tics and tourism busi­ness­es using these air­craft.”

Of course, Japan is very keen and enthu­si­as­tic about edu­cat­ing its pub­lic on Urban Air Mobil­i­ty (UAM), giv­en the Osa­ka Expo 2025 is less than two years away. The coun­try aims to dis­play, a wide range of eVTOLs along­side ver­ti­ports, where some air­craft will be fly­ing pas­sen­gers to and from the Expo dur­ing a six-month dura­tion.

The eVTOL show­room in Kurashi­ki City is all part of a grow­ing diverse and var­ied plan in Japan to achieve this. Per­haps, some wealthy peo­ple may even order an EH216 via the show­room at the AAVs sales price of USD302,000.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.ehang.com/ehangaav/

(Top image: EHang 216 Fly­ing in Aus­tria)