EHang reports that it has been inducted as a member of Japan’s Public-Private Committee (“PPC”) for Advanced Air Mobility (“AAM”), a platform for worldwide players in the public and private sectors on adopting flying vehicles in Japan.
“As the only autonomous eVTOL provider among the 56 PPC members, EHang will contribute its industry-leading expertise in Autonomous Aerial Vehicle (“AAV”) technology to promote the AAM ecosystem for safe eVTOL aircraft operations in Japan,” says the company. “The PPC was jointly established by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (“METI”) and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (“MLIT”) in 2018 to discuss eVTOL technology and system development for various nationwide AAM applications and services with the united respective strengths of government ministries, scientific research institutions, experts, aircraft manufacturers, and service suppliers.
“The METI and MLIT collaboratively released a roadmap on implementing AAM in society, including objectives for the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, as well as passenger transportation service in urban areas, tourist areas, mountainous regions, and isolated islands, as well as for logistics in times of disaster. The roadmap also involves development of the unmanned aircraft.
In the past two years, says EHang in a press release, the EH216-S AAV has expanded its trial flights footprint in six cities across Japan for multiple use case demonstrations, “which have been welcomed by the local government, MLIT, as well as EHang’s customers and partners including the leading Japanese air mobility digital platform company AirX, and the Japanese aerospace research institution MASC, both members of the PPC. Earlier this year, EH216-S carried out Japan’s first passenger-carrying flight by an autonomous eVTOL aircraft, following its completion of Japan’s first point-to-point flight by an eVTOL aircraft last year.”
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