Sweden’s Västra Götaland Area provides a fourth E3 base, extending Everdrone’s autonomous AED community to roughly 300,000 residents.
The Västra Götaland Area (VGR) is strengthening emergency healthcare in Borås with a brand new Everdrone medical drone base. The drone dispatches in response to emergency calls and delivers a defibrillator whereas ambulances are nonetheless en route.
Officers inaugurated the bottom on April 29, 2026. Operations start in early Could.
Borås Turns into the Fourth E3 Medical Drone Base
The brand new base sits on the service workplace in Pantängen. It’s going to attain roughly 63,000 residents and lengthen whole protection to round 300,000 folks throughout Västra Götaland.
“The bottom in Borås has been strategically situated primarily based on evaluation of inhabitants density, earlier emergency incidents, and airspace availability,” mentioned Daniel Blecher, Head of Buyer Operations at Everdrone.
The location turns into the fourth deployment of Everdrone’s new-generation E3 drone. Earlier protection from Dronelife reported the E3 carries as much as 4.5 kilograms of payload and cruises above 80 km/h, greater than doubling the earlier E2 platform’s capability.
Chopping Cardiac Arrest Response Occasions
Everdrone’s autonomous drone system targets out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, the place each minute counts. Ambulances in Sweden common about ten minutes to achieve an emergency scene, whereas the drone arrives in underneath three.
“In instances of cardiac arrest, speedy cardiopulmonary resuscitation and entry to a defibrillator are essential for survival – each minute counts. Whereas ready for an ambulance, Everdrone’s new drone can arrive in underneath three minutes carrying a defibrillator,” mentioned Magnus Hallberg von Geijer, COO at Everdrone.
The Metropolis of Borås hosted a press demonstration of the system on April 29. The Västra Götaland Area leads the challenge in collaboration with Karolinska Institutet and Everdrone.
The E3 is engineered for the Nordic local weather. It operates in chilly, snow, rain, and wind, and provides longer vary and better speeds than its predecessor.
Everdrone’s work has appeared in The Lancet and The New England Journal of Drugs. The Gothenburg-based firm turned the primary to save lots of a life utilizing an autonomous drone, and now runs pilot packages throughout Europe.
Extra data is on the market at Everdrone.
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Ian McNabb is a journalist specializing in drone expertise and way of life content material at Dronelife. He’s primarily based between Boston and NH and, when not writing, enjoys climbing and Boston space sports activities.