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China’s EHang Launches Longer-Range VT35 eVTOL Aircraft
New two-seater could fly almost six times further than the EH216-S model
EHang VT35 eVTOL aircraft
EHang has launched its VT35 eVTOL aircraft and is in the process of achieving Chinese type certification.

EHang has launched the VT35 autonomous eVTOL, showing video of the two-seater at an event in the Chinese city of Hefei on Monday. According to the company, the new model could offer range of up to 200 kilometers (109 nm), which would be almost six times the distance over which its in-service EH216-S aircraft operates.

The VT35, which will be priced at RMB 6.5 million ($950,000), features a tandem fixed wing configuration and is fundamentally different from the EH216’s multicopter architecture. It has eight distributed lift propellers for vertical takeoff and landing, and a pusher prop for horizontal cruise flight.