Eve Urban Air Mobility Solutions is to provide rideshare booking platform Ascent with up to 100,000 flight hours in its planned four-passenger eVTOL aircraft beginning in 2026. In an agreement announced on August 23, the Embraer subsidiary said that it intends to deploy up to around 100 copies of the new model, which it calls the Electrical Vertical Aircraft (EVA), to unnamed operating partners in the Asia Pacific region.
Initially, Eve and Ascent intend to offer flights in locations including Singapore; Tokyo; Bangkok, Thailand; Manila, Philippines; and Melbourne, Australia. The companies did not disclose the exact terms of the extension of their existing partnership to develop urban air mobility (UAM) services in the region, but the deal appears to be somewhat similar to the one that Eve announced with Latin American on-demand charter platform Flapper in July and an earlier agreement with Blade in the U.S. market.
