Embraer’s Eve Begins Electric Air Taxi Flight Tests

Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxis are getting closer to reality. Days after Boeing’s Wisk Aero shared the maiden sortie of its Generation 6 prototype, Eve Air Mobility, the eVTOL aircraft arm of Embraer, announced the first flight of its own air taxi. The uncrewed hover flight of Eve’s “ engineering prototype ”—a full-scale, nonconforming variant of the model it aims to certi