Gerard J. DeMuro
Analyst · Raymond James. Please go ahead
Thanks, Lucio. Good morning and thank you to those joining in the call today. Today is actually a special day for us. It's the first anniversary of our listing on the New York Stock Exchange. We've come a long way in the past year and are progressing well with our business plan, but we know there's quite a bit more to do. And I'm certain we have the right group of people to achieve our goals and become a major player in the UAM market. Over the last quarter, we've made significant progress on the development of our aircraft as well as in other areas of our business plan related to the UAM ecosystem. As you can see on Slide 2 here, we advanced to the next step in the certification process by proposing our basis of certification to ANAC and we expect approval by the end of the year. We progressed negotiations with our suppliers on both technical and commercial terms and our expectation is to close with suppliers of critical subsystems by the end of this quarter. We continued the extensive testing program with wind tunnel tests of different configurations and components. And in our design, we are now incorporating a best-in-class baggage compartment that Stein will talk a bit more about a little later as well as how user feedback is enhancing and influencing our design. Moving to Slide 3. This illustrates our progress on the technical aspects of the program. I mentioned our wind tunnel testing, which was a three week long exercise at RUAG in Switzerland. We are also testing different motor and propeller configurations through dedicated rigs that allow us to test under different load and weather conditions. Interestingly, we have developed a truck mounted rig to validate our modeling of rotor performance during transition and forward flight. In addition, we're also employing a series of additional rigs for battery and motor as well as thermal management tests all of these will permit extensive independent testing of discrete subsystems, and this is an important aspect of our flexible approach which allows us to test systems separately and incorporate refinements into the design once we have reached a target solution. In essence, it allows for quick and efficient product development. In short, we continue to mature the aircraft within the milestones we established and forecasted earlier this year and Edu will have a little more to say on the topic later. Now I would like to ask Stein to talk about several features of our aircraft that we're very excited about.
André Duarte Stein: Thanks, Jerry. We are very proud about our focus on user experience. And the result of that is to have been shortlisted for the Crystal Cabin Award this year. Being the shortlist for such prestigious award, it's a major achievement in itself and reflects all the hard work from our user experience and design teams and it's a continuous effort. We had many events and conversations with users, customers, and partners to have a more human centric, accessible and cost effective cabin, improving at the same time the user experience and economics for the operator. On that note, I'd like to highlight a few points about our cabin. And several of you might have been able to see it for yourselves, either in Melbourne last month at South by Southwest or in the Last Air Show. One of them, it's an extra wide passenger door and specially designed seats for enhanced accessibility in and out of the cabin. We also focus on multiple sensory involvement including different solutions to address different user needs. Besides that, we are using sustainable yet certifiable materials extensively in our cabin like cork, natural wool, and recyclable materials to minimize our impact on environment. As a reminder, sustainability is one of the pillars of our company, and that extends to cabin materials. Not only you will have a zero emission aircraft, but you are minimizing carbon emissions throughout the entire cycle of the aircraft. So our material choices are critical. Last, but not least, we have the best-in-class baggage capacity. Our eVTOL can fit one carry on suitcase per passenger and you can even fit larger checking luggage or even a wheelchair. We believe this adds to our passenger experience and accessibility drivers, provide capacity for ancillary revenue, as operators can charge for additional baggage, items or cargo and strengthen our offer, particular for the airport shuttle market. On to Slide 5 now. We also hosted our infrastructure summit in our Melbourne offices in April with 25 partners from operators to infrastructure and technology providers to seat representatives. This was one of the many events we sponsored throughout the last few years to integrate partners in the entire Urban Air Mobility ecosystem and help develop and scale its many components. We had four tracks of that event, sound implications for community, energy, ground service and passenger flow for a seamless experience. This type of event helped us and our partners diagnose potential pain points and yields findings for us to come up with solutions. In this experience specifically among other discussions with simulated passenger flow from boarding to the boarding using our cabin mock up. This gave participants a glimpse of what is necessary to its passenger flow and improved the overall experience. This is unique to Eve, as we do believe that beyond developing manufacturing our aircraft, it is necessary to look at all pieces in the entire ecosystem and the engagement partnership co-created. In that sense, it is uniquely positioned in the Urban Air Mobility market. Now moving to Slide 6. I'd like to mention that right after our infrastructure summit, we also hosted an Investor Day in our Melbourne offices and Florida. We hosted around 50 participants from partners to analysts and investors. We had a full afternoon of presentations by our team leaders. These are the people in charge of every aspect of the development of our program, design, engineering, and Urban Air Traffic Management, business development and customer experience. They offer some insights in their specific areas. We also opened in our U.S. offices that event. At the end of the day, we unveiled our cabin mock up should investment community over a more informal setting with our entire team. Slide 7 shows that you currently have what we believe to be the largest and most diversified backlog by number of customers and regions in the industry today. In total, we have announced LOIs for 2,770 aircraft from 26 different customers spread over to our countries and different business from main lines to regional airlines to helicopter operators, ride sharing platforms, and leasing companies. We also have LOIs to offer our Urban Air Traffic Management System in eight different markets. We believe this reflects the state of the art value proposition we bring to our partners and their clients. And there is more to come on that front. We believe that this pipeline offers strong term revenue visibility and will help Eve to smooth cash flow consumption in the years to come as we start to convert existing letters of intention into firm orders and collect pre-delivery payments known as PDPs. Beyond that, we are developing a strong network of partners in areas such as infrastructure and energy to address one of the largest challenge ahead of Urban Air Mobility, which is to create a whole new ecosystem besides simply developing our aircraft. Now, I'd like to invite Edu to talk about our financials and next milestones.