Eve Urban Air Mobility Solutions, Inc. (Eve) was launched today (15) by Embraer as a new and independent company dedicated to developing the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) ecosystem.
Eve is developing a complete portfolio of solutions to prepare the UAM market and ultimately benefit people's lives, including the development and certification of the company's electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle, a comprehensive network of and associated services and the creation of urban air traffic management solutions. André Stein, responsible for strategy at EmbraerX, was named CEO of Eve.
Eve will benefit from increased focus, speed and agility, allowing the company to innovate and execute at an accelerated pace to better leverage global UAM opportunities. After being incubated for nearly four years within EmbraerX, the time is right to establish Eve as an independent company.
“We value the enormous potential of the UAM market, as it represents a new business segment in which we foresee great opportunities for Embraer. Innovation and diversification are pillars of Embraer's new strategic plan, which will increase revenue and profitability in the coming years”, said Francisco Gomes Neto, President and CEO of Embraer. “Therefore, it is a great pleasure to announce Eve, the first company formed from EmbraerX. Eve is poised to engineer the new frontier in transportation with intelligent, environmentally friendly and autonomous aircraft and the associated broad and urban air traffic management solutions.”
As part of the company's initiative to accelerate the urban air mobility revolution, EmbraerX has been part of the Uber Elevate project since its inception in 2017.
“The launch of Eve is an important step forward in the commercialization of Embraer's eVTOL projects, while building on Embraer's ability to design, certify and deliver safe and globally accepted aircraft. We look forward to continuing our partnership to make airshare a reality.”, said Eric Allison, head of Uber Elevate.
Benefiting from a startup mindset, backed by Embraer's more than 50-year history of aerospace experience, Eve presents a unique and valuable market proposition.
Eve's human-centric eVTOL project represents the development of a real, certifiable product, as evidenced by the first flight of the engineering simulator in July 2020.
The company is leveraging the expertise of Embraer and Atech, a subsidiary of the Embraer Group, in providing world-renowned air traffic management software to create the solutions that will help safely scale the UAM industry going forward.
