Could Eve Air Mobility’s Steady Approach to AAM Pay Off?

Launched in 2020, Eve is a newer entrant to the advanced air mobility space, but it has the backing of parent Embraer.

Jack Daleo

Wednesday, June 18, 2025 at 02:39 PM ET

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Eve displayed a mockup of its flagship electric air taxi at the Paris Air Show. [Jack Daleo/FLYING]

Key Takeaways:

Eve Air Mobility adopts a deliberate development strategy, prioritizing maturity and leveraging parent company Embraer's proven processes, fly-by-wire technology, and regulatory relationships, rather than rushing prototype flights like competitors.
The company has amassed approximately 2,800 orders (mostly non-binding LOIs used for market insights) and recently secured its first binding agreement for up to 50 eVTOLs with Brazil's Revo, marking a transition from development to execution.
Eve's eVTOL targets urban and regional operators, aiming to provide quieter, faster transport, with an "engineering prototype" test flight planned for this summer and first deliveries expected by late 2027.

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PARIS—Spun out of Embraer in 2020, electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi developer Eve Air Mobility is younger than competitors like Archer Aviation, Joby Aviation, Beta Technologies, and Boeing’s Wisk Aero. Unlike Eve, each of those companies have flown eVTOL prototypes. But Luiz Valentini, chief technology officer of the Brazilian company, told FLYING it is unfazed.

“[Ours is] not a process focused on flying as early as possible,” Valentini said. “It’s a process focused on advancing with the right maturity level at each time in the project.”