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Joby Taps Toyota To Manufacture eVTOL Aircraft Components
Toyota Motor Corporation has agreed to supply key powertrain and actuation components for Joby’s eVTOL aircraft.
Two Joby engineers are pictured holding a tilt actuator at Joby’s San Carlos production facility.
Kazuhiro Sato (left) of Toyota Motor Corporation and Joby engineer Jordin Gischler (right) hold up a completed tilt actuator for Joby's eVTOL aircraft. The actuator was manufactured at Joby’s facility in San Carlos, California, with key parts supplied by Toyota. (Photo: Joby Aviation)

Electric air taxi developer Joby Aviation is expanding its partnership with Toyota Motor Corporation. The Japanese carmaker has agreed to supply key components for Joby’s eVTOL aircraft, the companies announced on April 27. 

Toyota will manufacture some components of the aircraft’s powertrain and actuators—devices that control its moving parts—before sending them to Joby’s powertrain and electronics manufacturing facility in San Carlos, California. Joby engineers there will then finish assembling the actuators and powertrain components and deliver them to the company’s pilot production facility in Marina, California, for integration into the four-passenger aircraft.

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