Akihabara News (Tokyo) — SkyDrive has received a conditional preorder for up to a hundred units of its forthcoming two-seater eVTOL to be used in the skies over Vietnam.
The agreement with Pacific Group, a renewable energy and investment firm in Vietnam, involves a pre-order of ten of SkyDrive SD-05 vehicles along with a conditional preorder option of up to ninety more.
“The urban streets in Vietnam,” explained SkyDrive CEO Tomohiro Fukuzawa, “are crowded with motorcycles and automobiles… Considering the current social problem of traffic safety and greenhouse gas emissions… we would be happy to contribute to solving Vietnam’s social issues by providing eVTOLs, a means of transportation using the sky, as part of the country’s new transportation infrastructure.”
Le Ngoc Anh Minh, the executive president and founder of Pacific Group, added that “we can foresee the need for eVTOLs in big cities in Asia, such as Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, in providing a new generation of transportation… Of course, we will have to work closely with SkyDrive and several authorities such as the Vietnam Transport Ministry, Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam, and the Vietnam Ministry of Defence from time to time to explain and present the trends and technologies of eVTOL in order to get approvals.”
SkyDrive and Pacific Group have also agreed to work in cooperation on related issues such as vertiports, route and network planning, and other infrastructural requirements in Vietnam.
The SkyDrive SD-05 is expected to be airworthy by early 2025.
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