Remember SkyDrive? It’s OK if you don’t because this is RideApart, not FlyApart. In 2022, the firm announced that it was teaming up with Suzuki to develop flying cars—or, more specifically, electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) machines for the Japanese market. At the time, SkyDrive also announced its intention to have its first vehicles up and flying by 2025.
Having goals is good, but what’s been going on behind the scenes over the past year? At the 2023 Paris Air Show in late June, SkyDrive officially announced that it had signed “a basic agreement” with Suzuki Motor Corporation to cooperate on manufacturing these vehicles. Production, the pair of companies says, should commence sometime in spring 2024.