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Japanese Company Skydrive Inc. Successfully Tests Solo Seater First Flying Car

By Sathish Mon -
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  • 29th August 2020,
  • 12:46 PM

Flying Car: The one-seater flying car dubbed the world’s smallest flying electric vehicle, successfully hovered for 4 minutes with a person onboard.

Flying Car

Flying Car

You are not reading the lines of a sci-fi fiction where you fancied reading how wonderful it feels to have a flying car and you wished you owned it one day. Human inventions are making most fictional concepts into reality in no time nowadays. SkyDrive Inc, a Japanese company has made a successful test drive of a flying car.

In a statement released on Friday, the company has announced that it carried a ‘successful flight test’ with one person on board. The images released was that of a contraption with propellers which hovered in the air several feet above the ground for around four minutes in a netted area.

SkyDrive’s CEO, Tomohiro Fukuzawa briefed the media stating the company look forward to having a society where flying cars are going to be both convenient and accessible means of transport and people are able to experience a safe and secure way of new life’. According to Fukazawa, the flying car could be a reality by around 2023 and reiterated that making it safe was quite critical before pushing it to the consumer markets.

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He further stated that ‘with more than 100 flying car projects being in place, only a handful has been successful with a person onboard’

‘The vehicle currently can fly up to 5 to 10 minutes and it would be a consumer-friendly choice if it succeeds to fly around 30 minutes which can have potential markets in countries like China’ Fukazawa was quoted saying. With the Japanese government stressing the importance of accessibility of such flying cars which can connect remote paces during disasters, the innovation has attracted a large scale interest around the world.

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The eVTOL or ‘Electric Vertical Takeoff And Landing’ vehicles provides quick point to point accessibility to travel at least in principle yet there are many more improvements in the evolutionary stage such as air traffic control, battery size and infrastructure challenges are some of the challenges that have the attention of many projects that is ongoing across the world. SkyDrive is aiming to have a commercial version of the car by 2023.

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