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India: SkyDrive Signs Agreement with JetSetGo “to Develop Commercial eVTOL Routes in Gujarat, Receives Pre-order for 50 eVTOL Aircraft” 

Sky­Drive, a Japan­ese eVTOL devel­op­er, announced this week the sign­ing of a col­lab­o­ra­tion with India-based Jet­Set­Go Avi­a­tion, a pri­vate jet oper­a­tor, to explore new busi­ness oppor­tu­ni­ties, ini­tial­ly in the state of Gujarat and lat­er oth­er loca­tions across India, reports a press release. Jet­Set­Go has also agreed to a pre-order of 50 units of the Sky­Drive SD-05 air­craft, which will be the com­pa­ny’s first com­mer­cial­ly cer­ti­fied fly­ing taxi.

Through the part­ner­ship, the two com­pa­nies will intro­duce eVTOL tech­nol­o­gy in India. Both will assess the com­mer­cial poten­tial for such oper­a­tions cen­tred around the wider Ahmed­abad area, as well as the poten­tial for wider expan­sion of route net­works to oth­er loca­tions with­in Gujarat and else­where.

Tomo­hi­ro Fukuza­wa, CEO of Sky­Drive, com­ment­ed, “Togeth­er, we aim to tack­le some of India’s press­ing mobil­i­ty-relat­ed chal­lenges, includ­ing the high lev­el of trans­port-relat­ed emis­sions and the inef­fi­cien­cies of urban traf­fic con­ges­tion, also in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Suzu­ki Motor Corps.” 

Kani­ka Tekri­w­al, CEO and co-Founder of Jet­Set­Go, remarked, “We’ve always believed in push­ing the enve­lope when it comes to avi­a­tion, bring­ing new, sus­tain­able solu­tions to India. This part­ner­ship takes that belief to the next lev­el.” Adding, “This isn’t just about the future of avi­a­tion. It’s about chang­ing the way we trav­el in India.”

Graph­ic image of Sky­Drive SD-05 eVTOL fly­ing over Indi­an urban area (Cred­it: Sky­Drive)

Sky­Drive has been explor­ing the devel­op­ment of the Indi­an mar­ket and its poten­tial use cas­es since 2022. A  part­ner­ship with the Gov­ern­ment of Gujarat began in Jan­u­ary 2024 to com­bat the large vol­ume of green­house gas emis­sions caused by road traf­fic and oth­er forms of trans­port, as well as the long-stand­ing issue of extreme urban con­ges­tion.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://en.skydrive2020.com/

www.jetsetgo.in

(Top image: Jet­Set­Go CSO Jonathan Sum­n­er, Sky­Drive Direc­tor of India Busi­ness Devel­op­ment, Takashi Fujii, sign­ing part­ner­ship agree­ment at recent Noi­da UAM Expo)

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