SkyDrive, Cyient Sign MOU for Technical Collaboration and eVTOL Development

Japan-based Sky­Drive, a lead­ing eVTOL air­craft man­u­fac­tur­er, and India-locat­ed Cyient, a glob­al Intel­li­gent engi­neer­ing and tech­nol­o­gy solu­tions com­pa­ny, announced recent­ly, the sign­ing of a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MOU) for joint tech­ni­cal col­lab­o­ra­tion and eVTOL devel­op­ment on SkyDrive’s SD-05 fly­ing taxi, reports a press release.

Tomo­hi­ro Fukuza­wa, CEO of Sky­Drive, com­ment­ed,  “Cyient is one of Indi­a’s lead­ing engi­neer­ing com­pa­nies with a wide range of busi­ness oper­a­tions around the world, includ­ing the aero­space indus­try. Hav­ing Cyient as a part­ner will take us clos­er to the future of the mobil­i­ty rev­o­lu­tion.” 

BVR Red­dy, Founder Chair­man and Board Mem­ber of Cyient, remarked,“This part­ner­ship will empow­er Sky­Drive to tap into the engi­neer­ing ecosys­tem of tal­ent and tech­nol­o­gy avail­able in India and serve the glob­al UAM mar­ket. This is also our pledge to our com­mu­ni­ties and the envi­ron­ment to be pio­neers in shap­ing a bet­ter world for every­one.” 

Sky­Drive SD-05

Cyient was found­ed in 1991 and present­ly part­ners with over 300 cus­tomers, includ­ing 40 per­cent of the top 100 glob­al inno­va­tors, to deliv­er smart engi­neer­ing and tech­nol­o­gy solu­tions for a dig­i­tal, autonomous, and sus­tain­able future.

Karthikeyan Natara­jan, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor and Cyient CEO, explained, “By 2030, Urban Air Mobil­i­ty (UAM) will be a USD23 bil­lion oppor­tu­ni­ty glob­al­ly. And I am thrilled we are India’s first part­ner for Japan’s lead­ing- eVTOL man­u­fac­tur­er.”

For more infor­ma­tion

https://en.skydrive2020.com/

www.cyient.com

Top image: Sign­ing cer­e­mo­ny at Cyient head­quar­ters in Hyder­abad between Founder Chair­man and Board Mem­ber of Cyient, BVR Red­dy, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor & CEO of Cyient, Karthikeyan Natara­jan, and Sky­Drive CEO, Tomo­hi­ro Fukuza­wa