SkyDrive is partnering with Japan’s central government and officials in the western city of Osaka to advance plans for a so-called “Moving Revolution Society” that would see electric-powered eVTOL vehicles enter commercial service in 2023. The Japanese company announced that the partners met last week and agreed to expand their work under the auspices of the new Public-Private Conference for Future Air Mobility to support “flying car” operations in Osaka, which is the second most populous metropolitan area in Japan after Tokyo with an overall population of around 20 million people.
In 2025 the city will host the Osaka-Kansai Japan World Expo and SkyDrive views this a platform for establishing what it calls “full-scale” air mobility. The group, which in August achieved a first public, manned flight with its single-seat SD-03 vehicle, said that it intends to expand the partnership to include around 40 other companies and organizations.
