EHang 184 (defunct)

EHang 184 
EHang
Guangzhou, China
www.ehang.com

EHang was founded in December 2014 by Huazhi Hu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and Derrick Yifang Xiong, Director and Chief Marketing Officer. EHang is an autonomous aerial vehicle technology platform company based in China and is pioneering the future of all-electric aerial transportation through multiple proprietary products and services. The designation of its EHang 184 single-seat eVTOL means “1 passenger, 8 propellers, 4 arms.”

The EHang 184 Autonomous Aerial Vehicle (“AAV”) was initiated by the founder and CEO, Mr. HU Huazhi; in late 2012, he started to design the initial verification model. Manned and unmanned flight testing has been conducted in China in 2015-2017, USA (Nevada) in 2016-2017 and UAE (Dubai), in 2017.

In a July 2017 interview for CNBC, EHang co-founder Derrick Xiong stated that “at this moment we are working closely with Dubai and we have actually, together with them, we have done numerous tests, internally. Also, we have basically done a lot of — many, many times — tests with a passenger on it, including the vice-mayor of Guangzhou City in China and also some governors from Dubai as well. We have done a lot of tests and we aim to do the very first public demo very soon this year.”

In Feb. 2018, EHang unveiled that it had made a new version, apparently with two-seats named “EHang 216”, that had twice as many arms. The company also reported that the “EHang 184 AAV achieves a series of manned flight tests with up to 40 persons,” including the EHang CEO onboard.

It was reported in January 2020, that the EHang 184 was retired and replaced with the EHang 116. The two production models are the EHang 116 (1 passenger aircraft) and the EHang 216 (2 passenger aircraft).

Single-Seat EHang 184 Characteristics (Feb. 2017):

Company Insights:

• Pitchbook
• Crunchbase
• MarketWatch
• Tracxn

Resources:

• EHang website
• EHang 184 Specifications
• EHang Urban Air Mobility Information
• EHang Facebook
• EHang Twitter
• EHang Instagram
• EHang YouTube
• Article: The Demand for On-Demand Mobility, Vertiflite, Jan. 2017
• Article: Air Mobility Bonanza Beckons Electric VTOL Developers, Vertiflite, Mar. 2017
• Video: A deer? No, Santa Claus flies EHang 184!, EHang, Dec. 24, 2017
• Video: EHANG184 AAV achieves a series of manned flight tests with up to 40 persons including EHANG CEO ever onboard. The autonomous flying car is coming soon..., EHang (Facebook video), Feb. 5, 2018
• Video: EHang 184 AAV Manned Flight Tests, EHang, Feb. 5, 2018
• Article: EHang's driverless MEGADRONE carries passengers around China ..., Daily Mail, Feb. 6, 2018
• Article: First Test Footage Revealed of EHANG 184 Manned Passenger Drone, EHang, Feb. 6, 2018
• Gallery: EHang Walkaround, Vertical Flight Society, June 19-20, 2018
• Article: EHang releases white paper on urban air mobility, eVTOL, Jan. 15, 2020
• White Paper: The Future of Transportation: White Paper on Urban Air Mobility Systems, EHang, Jan. 15, 2020
• Article: A closer look at the Ehang 216 pilotless air taxi, New Atlas, Jan. 29, 2020
• Article: How EHang Built an eVTOL for the World, Vertiflite, July/August 2020
• Article: EHang Flies in North Carolina, evtol.news, Mar. 3, 2020

• Article: EHang Goes Public, evtol.news, Jan. 2, 2020
• Article: EHang Delivers, evtol.news, Nov. 4, 2019
• Article: EHang Operational, evtol.news, Aug. 24, 2019
• Article: EHang Flies in Austria, evtol.news, Apr. 23, 2019
• Article: EHang Certification Progress, evtol.news, Feb. 23, 2019
• Article: Ehang Grows in Europe, evtol.news, Jan. 2, 2019
• Article: EHang Makes More 184s and 216s, evtol.news, Jul. 1 2018
• Article: EHANG Doubles its 184, evtol.news, Apr. 1 2018
• Article: EHang in Dubai, Aug 23 2017