Joby Aviation and Toyota Motor Corporation launch initial phase of its strategic manufacturing alliance

Joby Avi­a­tion and Toy­ota Motor Cor­po­ra­tion have announced the ini­tial phase of their strate­gic man­u­fac­tur­ing alliance by estab­lish­ing the Joint Ven­ture to real­ize air mobil­i­ty.

Announced today (Tues­day), it will com­bine Joby’s pio­neer­ing work in elec­tric avi­a­tion with Toyota’s glob­al­ly rec­og­nized exper­tise in pro­duc­tion sys­tems and oper­a­tional excel­lence.

The Strate­gic Alliance will ini­tial­ly focus on estab­lish­ing the ground­work for com­mer­cial pro­duc­tion, and advanc­ing man­u­fac­tur­ing excel­lence, with par­tic­u­lar empha­sis on fur­ther improv­ing pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, qual­i­ty, and cost.

Going for­ward, it will also sup­port the expan­sion of Joby’s pro­duc­tion capac­i­ty to sup­port air­craft cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and meet antic­i­pat­ed growth in demand for its elec­tric ver­ti­cal take-off and land­ing (eVTOL) air­craft.

JoeBen Bevirt, founder and CEO of Joby Avi­a­tion, said: “Toy­ota has been by Joby’s side for near­ly a decade, pro­vid­ing invalu­able guid­ance and sup­port as we built the foun­da­tion for man­u­fac­tur­ing our air­craft.

“Today’s announce­ment reflects the strength of our rela­tion­ship and our shared con­fi­dence in the oppor­tu­ni­ty ahead. Togeth­er, we share a vision of mak­ing aer­i­al mobil­i­ty an every­day real­i­ty, and we look for­ward to deliv­er­ing on that promise togeth­er.”

In Decem­ber 2025, Joby announced it was to dou­ble its man­u­fac­tur­ing capac­i­ty in the Unit­ed States, as it plans to sup­port the pro­duc­tion of four air­craft per month in 2027. 

And in May of that year, the com­pa­ny con­firmed a suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of the first $250 mil­lion tranche of a pre­vi­ous­ly announced invest­ment from Toy­ota Motor Cor­po­ra­tion.

At the time, the fund­ing marked a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone in strength­en­ing the long-term col­lab­o­ra­tion between the two com­pa­nies and sup­ports their shared vision for the future of air mobil­i­ty.

Akio Toy­o­da, Chair­man of Toy­ota Motor Cor­po­ra­tion, said: “Since our found­ing, we’ve been guid­ed by the phi­los­o­phy of pro­vid­ing mobil­i­ty for all. Over time, we’ve con­tin­ued to expand what mobil­i­ty can mean. We see air mobil­i­ty as a nat­ur­al exten­sion of that philosophy—from the ground into the sky—and as a way to bring new val­ue to people’s lives and to soci­ety.

“It’s real­ly mean­ing­ful for us to take on this chal­lenge togeth­er with Joby, a part­ner that shares the same vision. We believe this strength­ened rela­tion­ship is an impor­tant step for­ward in real­iz­ing the future mobil­i­ty soci­ety.”