SkyDrive and Osaka Metro Signs AgreementTowards Social Implementation of eVTOL after the EXPO 2025

SkyDrive and Osaka City are signing up with pressures to check out the future of city air movement. This amazing collaboration intends to research the expediency of utilizing eVTOLs in the Osaka location after the Exposition 2025, bringing us one action better to a globe where flying autos are a fact.

TOYOTA, Japan, August 26, 2024- SkyDrive Inc. (” SkyDrive”), a leading Japanese eVTOL airplane (* 1)
supplier based in Japan, introduced that it has actually authorized an arrangement with Osaka City Co.,
Ltd. (” Osaka City”) to research the expediency of utilizing eVTOL in the Osaka location after the Exposition 2025
Osaka, Kansai, Japan (” the Exposition”). Furthermore, Osaka City bought SkyDrive.

SkyDrive was picked to take part in the Advanced Air Movement “Smart Movement Exposition” Job in
2025 (* 2).
Osaka City runs 8 train lines and one New Cable car, which is an automated, driverless
cable car. Every day, around 2.4 million travelers utilize the Osaka City quick transportation system. The
firm is likewise progressing a metropolitan Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) idea called “e CITY,” which
incorporates numerous settings of transportation, consisting of metros, buses, and taxis, to make Osaka city a lot more
hassle-free. In February 2024, Osaka City was picked as a driver of a vertiport outside the
Exposition website in Osaka.
SkyDrive and Osaka City have actually reviewed vertiport procedures both throughout and after the Exposition. As
SkyDrive visualizes a future where eVTOL comes to be an usual setting of day-to-day transport, both
business identified a common vision and determined a solid placement in between their objectives.
Under this arrangement, SkyDrive and Osaka City will certainly check out in-depth service strategies and
procedures to figure out just how they can almost utilize eVTOL innovation.

Ends

Concerning Osaka City Co., Ltd.
Osaka City is the straight lawful follower to the Osaka Municipal Transport Bureau, which
ran the train as the Osaka Municipal Metro. Osaka City runs a metro network of
137.8 kilometers with 9 lines throughout main Osaka, playing a vital function as social facilities.
Along with its basic goal as a ‘transport facilities’ supplying safety and security, safety,
and convenience, and as a ‘social facilities’ sustaining every day life, the firm likewise intends to act as
a ‘vigor facilities’ where varied individuals satisfy and develop brand-new worths with each other. Its company
viewpoint is to add to the more advancement of the global city of Osaka. Osaka
City is progressing its service tasks with the objective of developing a town hall on transport.
For additional information, please check out: https://www.osakametro.co.jp/en/
Concerning SkyDrive Inc.
SkyDrive was officially developed in July 2018 after evaluating flying cars and truck ideas and models from
2014 with the goal of “taking the lead in the once-in-a-century movement change.” Its vision is
to develop a future where every person has accessibility to eVTOLs as their day-to-day transport in Japan and
throughout the globe. The firm was successful in the initial crewed eVTOL trip examination in Japan in 2019 and
its eVTOL “SKYDRIVE” remains in the procedure of getting its Japan Civil Aeronautics Bureau and Federal
Aeronautics Management accreditation. SkyDrive has actually been picked as a firm to take part in the
Advanced Air Movement task at Exposition 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan. SkyDrive started manufacturing of
” SKYDRIVE” in March 2024 at the plant possessed by main manufacturing companion Suzuki Electric motor Business.
SkyDrive is headquartered in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture. Tomohiro Fukuzawa is the Chief Executive Officer of the
firm.
For additional information, please check out: https://en.skydrive2020.com/

Parting Ideas

The cooperation in between SkyDrive and Osaka City signifies a substantial action in the direction of the combination of eVTOLs right into our every day lives. As these 2 sector leaders incorporate their knowledge, we can prepare for a future where travelling handles an entire brand-new measurement. The skies’s the restriction!

The message SkyDrive and Osaka Metro Signs AgreementTowards Social Implementation of eVTOL after the EXPO 2025 showed up initially on eVTOL Insights.

The message SkyDrive and Osaka Metro Signs AgreementTowards Social Implementation of eVTOL after the EXPO 2025 showed up initially on eVTOL Insights.