EHang’s pilotless EH216-S eVTOL completes debut flight in central Shanghai, world-class central city ready to accept air taxi transportation

GUANGZHOU, China, Jan. 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — EHang Holdings Limited (EHang or the Company) (Nasdaq: EH ), the world’s leading urban air mobility (UAM) technology platform, today announced that its flagship unmanned passenger aircraft carrier EH216-S completed its inaugural demo flight in central Shanghai. It served as an excellent backdrop for demonstrating exceptional capabilities in practicality, safety and environmental friendliness within the metropolitan UAM operational environment. It also officially launched the regular trial operation of eVTOL sightseeing routes along the Huangpu River at Shanghai Longhua Airport, in preparation for the next commercial operations in Shanghai. The move aims to bring urban air mobility to mega hub cities.

Image: EH216-S pilotless eVTOL completes debut flight in Shanghai

Longhua Airport is considered the only airport in central Shanghai with apron airspace and is home to the East China General Aviation Service Center of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). As an important base for the high-quality development of Shanghai’s low-altitude economy, Longhua Airport offers ideal conditions for various low-altitude economic activities, including air mobility, tourism and sightseeing, emergency rescue and logistics. This flight not only demonstrated the capabilities of the EH216-S for commercial application in urban sightseeing and travel scenarios, but also laid a solid foundation for its future gradual deployment and realization of regular commercial urban air taxi operations in the Yangtze River Delta region centered around Shanghai.

Image: EH216-S eVTOL Operations Center at Shanghai Longhua Airport

The EH216-S for this debut flight is one of the aircraft products that EHang delivered to its customer Shanghai Hynfar Aviation Co., Ltd. (Hynfar Aviation). Hynfar Aviation is a pioneer company in Shanghai focusing on eVTOL operations and partner of eVTOL operations of Longhua Airport. In the future, EHang and Hynfar Aviation and New Margin Eastwood Fund will take Longhua Airport as a base to develop various low-altitude economic eVTOL operational scenarios such as passenger transport and city sightseeing in the entire Shanghai area and further cover cities and regions along the corridor Yangtze River Delta Science and Innovation G60 (including nine cities across Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces). This cooperation aims to promote more cities for the realization of new models of air taxi transport.

Image: Numerous guests watched the debut flight of EH216-S in downtown Shanghai

The Action (WA:) Shanghai Low Altitude High-Quality Industrial Development Plan (2024-2027) aims to position Shanghai as a leading center for innovation, commercial applications and operational services in the low-altitude economy, with core industries expected to to exceed RMB 50 billion by 2027, creating an internationally influential City in the Sky. The plan specifically mentions the goal of achieving more than 100 low-altitude flight applications in commercial scenarios such as logistics transport, emergency rescue, cultural tourism, smart cities and passenger transport by 2027. It also promotes pilot projects for commercial passenger transport across and between major transport routes. hubs, such as Hongqiao International Airport, Pudong International Airport and Longhua Airport, in addition to five new intercity stations within Shanghai. This provides clear policy guidelines and enormous development opportunities for the growth of low-altitude economies.

Mr. Zhao Wang, EHang’s Chief Operating Officer, stated: As the world’s first unmanned passenger transport eVTOL to receive Type Certificate, Production Certificate and Standard Certificate of Airworthiness from CAAC, the successful debut flight of the EH216-S in Shanghai has great success. demonstration importance, which means that the big central cities in China are on the verge of entering the era of the urban air taxi flying scenario. With metropolises gradually advancing in the development and operation of low-altitude economies, EHang’s eVTOLs for unmanned passenger transportation are poised to become a key driver of UAM transformation. Looking ahead, we will take full advantage of our first mover advantage as the world’s first certified eVTOL company and join with Hynfar Aviation, which has been deeply rooted in the field of civil aviation for many years, and combine the comprehensive outlook and rich cultural and tourism resources of the New Margin Eastwood Fund in the low-altitude economic sector, to actively promote market-oriented, EH216-S commercial operations in Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta region. Together, we will explore diverse application scenarios within the low-altitude economy and jointly build a smarter and more efficient UAM ecosystem, making air taxi rides part of consumers’ daily travel routine.

About EHang
EHang (Nasdaq: EH) is the world’s leading urban air mobility (UAM) technology platform. Our mission is to enable safe, autonomous and environmentally friendly air mobility available to everyone. EHang provides unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems and solutions to customers in a variety of industries: aerial mobility (including passenger transport and logistics), smart city management and airborne media solutions. EHang’s flagship product EH216-S has received the world’s first type approval, production certificate and standard airworthiness certificate for unmanned eVTOL by the Civil Aviation Administration of China. As the forerunner of cutting-edge UAV technologies and commercial solutions in the global UAM industry, EHang continues to explore the boundaries of the sky to bring flying technologies to benefit our lives in smart cities. For more information, visit www.ehang.com.

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