Sweden’s Västra Götaland Region adds a fourth E3 base, extending Everdrone’s autonomous AED network to roughly 300,000 residents.
The Västra Götaland Region (VGR) is strengthening emergency healthcare in Borås with a new Everdrone medical drone base. The drone dispatches in response to emergency calls and delivers a defibrillator while ambulances are still en route.
Officials inaugurated the base on April 29, 2026. Operations begin in early May.
Borås Becomes the Fourth E3 Medical Drone Base
The new base sits at the service office in Pantängen. It will reach approximately 63,000 residents and extend total coverage to around 300,000 people across Västra Götaland.
“The base in Borås has been strategically located based on analysis of population density, previous emergency incidents, and airspace availability,” said Daniel Blecher, Head of Customer Operations at Everdrone.
The site becomes the fourth deployment of Everdrone’s new-generation E3 drone. Earlier coverage from Dronelife reported the E3 carries up to 4.5 kilograms of payload and cruises above 80 km/h, more than doubling the previous E2 platform’s capacity.
Cutting Cardiac Arrest Response Times
Everdrone’s autonomous drone system targets out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, where every minute counts. Ambulances in Sweden average about ten minutes to reach an emergency scene, while the drone arrives in under three.
“In cases of cardiac arrest, immediate cardiopulmonary resuscitation and access to a defibrillator are critical for survival – every minute counts. While waiting for an ambulance, Everdrone’s new drone can arrive in under three minutes carrying a defibrillator,” said Magnus Hallberg von Geijer, COO at Everdrone.
The City of Borås hosted a press demonstration of the system on April 29. The Västra Götaland Region leads the project in collaboration with Karolinska Institutet and Everdrone.
The E3 is engineered for the Nordic climate. It operates in cold, snow, rain, and wind, and offers longer range and higher speeds than its predecessor.
Everdrone’s work has appeared in The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine. The Gothenburg-based company became the first to save a life using an autonomous drone, and now runs pilot programs across Europe.
More information is available at Everdrone.
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Ian McNabb is a journalist focusing on drone technology and lifestyle content at Dronelife. He is based between Boston and NH and, when not writing, enjoys hiking and Boston area sports.