Both Suzuki and SkyDrive have together partnered up for strategic collaboration on the future of flying car technology. SkyDrive announced the exciting news in a press release on the morning of Tuesday, March 22nd, with the highlighted emphasis on building better and more stable full-scale production of real-world, commercialized flying cars.
SkyDrive has been in this business for quite some time, last seen at CES 2022 with some interesting products at its disposal, mainly the SD-03, which initially debuted in 2020. The Japanese company has long been expanding its influence, pushing bounds in the aerial vehicle arena with well-made, interesting technology, which boasts "zero-operating-emission air travel."
Suzuki Motor Company, on the other hand, has a long history of innovating and enhancing engine manufacturing, most prominently in automobiles and motorcycles, but also boats. Established all the way back in 1920, Suzuki proves to be the ideal candidate for SkyDrive in forwarding the growth of flying vehicle tech, specifically in the areas of both R&D and business.
SkyDrive anticipates delivering upon a full-fledged flying vehicle taxi service based in japan by 2025's World Exposition, which will take place in Osaka. Suzuki's hand in this effort will be in the facilitation of mass-production systems, budding efforts in enhancing carbon neutrality, and broadened manufacturing and mass-production systems. Both will also work together in bridging a better overseas market focus, specifically to start in India.
SkyDrive won't be the only company benefiting from the partnership, as Suzuki will likewise be privy to a whole new side of the transportation business: "flying cars as a fourth mobility business," reads the fine print. To be clear, however, while SkyDrive does enhance and utilize technology that directly is associated with flying vehicles, the concept itself is based on eVTOL aircraft, which essentially means electric vertical takeoff and landing.
Through SkyDrive's long commitment to providing the most advanced and important concepts in flying vehicle tech, Suzuki will only grow upon its own mantra to "Develop products of superior value by focusing on the customer." SkyDrive's main hope is not only to enlist more commonalities to air mobility in everyday life but also to reduce and totally limit carbon emissions in daily travel, both of which seem incredibly idealistic but certainly not impossible.
The company, alongside Suzuki, will only forward the growth of the air vehicle business for the future of innovation. With SkyDrive's long history in drone technology and good business practices on their side, with even Japan's Public-Private Council for advanced air mobility as an entity behind the company, the future of air travel and mobility seems to be in the best hands possible.
