The Japanese car manufacturer, Suzuki Motor Corporation, together with SkyDrive Inc. which is a Japanese manufacturer for ‘flying cars’, has revealed that it has come to an agreement to build eVTOL aircraft “SKYDRIVE.”
The aircraft is a three-seat, electric-powered lightweight aircraft with vertical take-off and landing capabilities, and it is set to be built at Suzuki’s production facility.
Toshihiro Suzuki, the President of Suzuki Motor Corporation, mentioned how excited they are to cooperate with SkyDrive as they ambitiously work towards creating valuable products that contribute to the realization of a world where people use the sky for their daily transportations.
SkyDrive Inc. CEO, Tomohiro Fukuzawa, mentioned how at Suzuki, all manufacturing activities are based on a concept, ‘Smaller, Fewer, Lighter, Shorter, and Neater’ and SkyDrive is developing lightweight air mobilities. “Suzuki and SkyDrive have been collaborating since March 2022 and we are very excited that SkyDrive will utilize the production facility of Suzuki to build our eVTOL ‘SKYDRIVE.’ In our pursuit to consistently manufacture safe and high-quality aircraft for the world, we are grateful for the valuable know-how we will learn from Suzuki, a global leader in automobile mass production.” – he added.
With its headquarters in the city of Toyota in central Japan, SkyDrive has trading house Itochu, tech firm NEC and a unit of energy company Eneos Holdings among its main shareholders.
The deal was signed back in March last year by the two companies to team up in research, development and marketing of flying cars. Suzuki and SkyDrive are set to work closely towards the shared goal.
