Aircraft
Lower Costs, Political Momentum Favor Chinese Advanced Air Mobility
Beijing-based consultant Louis Liu of DAP Technologies provides overview of China's eVTOL prospects
Volant's VE25-100 eVTOL aircraft
Volant's VE25-100 eVTOL aircraft is one of several prospective new market entrants in China's advanced air mobility sector.

Markedly lower costs and a potentially vast domestic market would appear to support the case that China is fertile territory for cultivating the new advanced air mobility (AAM) sector. According to Louis Liu, the founder and CEO of Beijing-based consultancy DAP Technologies, strong political will from the highest levels of China’s government to achieve growth from the so-called “low-altitude economy” is now bolstering prospects for the country’s eVTOL pioneers. 

It is now almost a year since EHang achieved a world-first by securing type certification for its EH216-S eVTOL aircraft from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). It has since earned a production certificate allowing it to increase manufacturing rates of the two-seat autonomous vehicle.