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The Flying Car Aiming for 2025 Lift-Off: SkyDrive eVTOL

Startup SkyDrive just partnered with Suzuki to help get its next-generation personal flying vehicle off the ground in time for the 2025 Osaka World Expo. Subscribe to CNET: Never miss a deal again! See CNET’s browser extension ???? Like us on Facebook: Follow us on Twitter: Follow us on Instagram: Follow us on TikTok:

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  1. CF G

    June 7, 2022 at 2:35 pm

    If it’s a prototype the almost 30 years old Bell Aerosystems rocket pack showcased at the 1984 Olympics was more impressive.

  2. Zinedine Zethro

    June 7, 2022 at 2:40 pm

    They probably will hit that launch date, considering the prototype is already at that stage. Suzuki partnership is obviously gonna be about mass production of these thing, so production is already planned. Although i doubt these will be as common as normal cars cuz one: they’re pretty dangerous if there’s a lot of them in the sky, two: they’re pretty impractical cuz they take larger space, three: they’re pretty expensive, and four: we have better ways of avoiding congestion with things like public transport. But i also think this will have their own niche market. Mostly in the wealthy class for personal transport and air taxi. The air taxi is obviously gonna be more expensive than normal taxi but they’ll probably act more like small planes that land on hubs in and around the city that will connect with other form of transport like the metro and bus. While the personal transport for the wealthy is as it sounds, wealthier households can have landing pads while office buildings can have landing pads for the company’s flying cars. They will also probably be used heavily by companies to transport high value individuals in cities cuz every minute wasted on travel time between location will be unproductive for the company.

  3. visualskyman

    June 7, 2022 at 2:43 pm

    this does remind me of the back to the future 2 scene

  4. Tea With Danny

    June 7, 2022 at 2:52 pm

    I’m confused because it’s not a flying car, it has no wheels once you land. It’s a personal quadcopter

    • Pavel Aubuchon-Mendoza

      June 7, 2022 at 3:48 pm

      Did you watch the whole thing?

  5. dePlant

    June 7, 2022 at 3:06 pm

    so stupid. just give up on this dumb idea already. why aren’t there any monorails anymore? EXACTLY.

  6. Santuse

    June 7, 2022 at 3:13 pm

    See: why flying cars will never be a thing by Adam Something.

    Also check out the not just bikes channel.

    Tldr: if it wasn’t illegal to build duplexes and corner markets in suburbia, we wouldn’t have to travel as far, then we could build trolleys and everyone saves 10,000 per year. Picture Amsterdam.

  7. Miguel Rodriguez

    June 7, 2022 at 4:00 pm

    There is enough bad drivers on the streets, picture what it’s going to like when they start flying.

  8. Ss cc

    June 7, 2022 at 4:26 pm

    That sir is a flying drone . Not a car
    Also its flying not driving.

  9. Warren

    June 7, 2022 at 4:27 pm

    I don’t buy it … Can you imagine a joy rider in charge of his newly gold plated high spinning blades

  10. Andy Altman

    June 7, 2022 at 4:29 pm

    Do you think SkyDrive will hit its goal of certification by 2025?

    • neodymium

      June 7, 2022 at 6:46 pm

      Possible

    • Ultra

      June 7, 2022 at 8:04 pm

      No

    • Belznis

      June 7, 2022 at 10:10 pm

      I wonder how they will solve the issue with air traffic. You could in theory use sensors like on cars, to detect other vehicles and maintain distances. Same with the low charge issue – emergency warning and landing automatically? Many interesting issues to solve. One thing is creating a flying vehicle, the other is making it safe.

    • AEN ONE Energy

      June 9, 2022 at 9:34 pm

      Yes, they will. We live in Japan and speak to SkyDrive execs regularly. The air traffic is no issue at all. They have already partnered with the government of Osaka, key companies and many others around the country. Autonomous will be no issue at all. I’m surprised it’s not up and running now.

  11. ace1971 james

    June 7, 2022 at 4:47 pm

    IF your talking maybe turn down the background music noise……..

  12. Everything Videos

    June 7, 2022 at 4:51 pm

    That’s not a car that’s a oversized drone.

  13. OmertaCS

    June 7, 2022 at 5:22 pm

    No please. There’s plenty of idiots on the ground in normal vehicles, we don’t need them flying around.

  14. nightmareonstilts

    June 7, 2022 at 5:30 pm

    Sky TV going to tell them to change their name, like they did for Microsoft’s now OneDrive?

  15. khana mai

    June 7, 2022 at 5:30 pm

    Dule you only flying 1 hour not longdistance flying i think is a toy play only not ,also it a lot money how people low income how they buy it,the cost it should be low cost 30 to 40_Grand people can buy ,buy you taking about millions for flying car then you shut up your mouths, yeah that is my comment

  16. Anto VH

    June 7, 2022 at 5:55 pm

    With all the advanced in tech and still this look’s and feels like we on the Flintstones era this is Terrible…

  17. Pito VH

    June 7, 2022 at 5:55 pm

    With all the advanced in tech and still this look’s and feels like we on the Flintstones era this is Terrible…

  18. Rod RodI

    June 7, 2022 at 6:46 pm

    The Evtol market will shift to “likely” when the issue of battery life and noise are solved to a degree where it has similar comparabilities to owning an actual car.. Until then flying “cars” are a dream and at most a hobby for flight enthusiasts. I’m not arguing.

  19. LHLYS

    June 7, 2022 at 6:54 pm

    I don’t want blenders flying over my head..

  20. Andy Lee

    June 7, 2022 at 7:27 pm

    Hmm, not really a flying car. Just a big drone

  21. Liam Johnson

    June 7, 2022 at 8:04 pm

    3:43 Yeah, a million dollar air taxi that can only go 7 miles, sounds like REAL lucrative business endeavor for a fleet vehicle…

  22. Xsiner unfiltered

    June 7, 2022 at 8:08 pm

    Skydrive powered by Skynet.

  23. Michael Linton

    June 7, 2022 at 8:20 pm

    People can’t drive a car down the road. How are they going to fly a car?

  24. Graeme Johnson

    June 7, 2022 at 10:53 pm

    Check out the one that English Bloke.. Colin Furze made at home, a long time before this one…

  25. Random Kindness

    June 8, 2022 at 12:44 am

    why not just call them “eVTOLs” electronic vertical takeoffs and landers, and just leave out the whole “flying cars”

  26. Mteo kay

    June 8, 2022 at 1:21 am

    These NOISY AF things should not be allowed to take off til they somehow can reduce its sound POLLUTION!!!!

  27. S J Elliott

    June 8, 2022 at 1:51 am

    I appreciate the innovation, but this will never be more than a convention gimmick. Idiot people can’t even drive a ground car right, you gonna put them in a mobile blender? Right.

  28. Julian Pereira

    June 8, 2022 at 4:51 am

    An EVTOL that flies with actual people in it. Thumbs up.

  29. Albert Rivera

    June 8, 2022 at 5:47 am

    I don’t see how this is any different than a helicopter.

    And it’s not a flying car until you can drive it on the ground and fly it. Otherwise, it’s just a helicopter with multiple props.

    No way we will see this in 2025. We’ve been hearing that hype for decades. I don’t think we will ever see this as a consumer product in our lifetime.

  30. Arun Narayan

    June 8, 2022 at 6:30 am

    I really was surprised to see Linus in the video!!!????

  31. Jordan Carranza

    June 8, 2022 at 6:53 am

    Flying cars wont be solid and for the masses until 2050-2060

  32. Paul Warner

    June 8, 2022 at 7:31 am

    No !

  33. Oli Spagna

    June 8, 2022 at 12:49 pm

    FANTASTIC ????

  34. 222infinity

    June 8, 2022 at 5:26 pm

    Small and simple, should = low price, perhaps $100K not $400K???

  35. Tymn Urban

    June 9, 2022 at 1:07 am

    Not a car. But ok.

  36. Soup Bone

    June 9, 2022 at 5:19 am

    So do you shoot down these during a chase ?

  37. chris paul

    June 9, 2022 at 6:07 am

    If this actually becomes a “car they would need to change the definition of a car

  38. joelface

    June 9, 2022 at 10:04 am

    The funniest thing to me is the concept art that shows these things stuck in traffic… in the air.

  39. Sitorus Amborgang

    June 9, 2022 at 10:47 am

    Flying range 10km and flying time is 10 minutes. Is this worthed? It is not even distance of a city center to outside a big city.

  40. aman kumar

    June 9, 2022 at 12:11 pm

    Personal evtol and chain saw in one package.

  41. Jun Villanueva

    June 10, 2022 at 11:13 pm

    Anything with rotors outside is a helicopter and anything with wings is an airplane. These inventors are confused. Had you seen the fifth element movie that Bruce Willis drive? Thats a flying car.
    Probably in 100 years you’ll be able to.

  42. Jeff Renman

    June 12, 2022 at 8:58 am

    certification will be tricky… Let’s compare it to a car just for a second…SkyDrive has eight swords spinning around extremely dangerous… Car has none… SkyDrive is very noisy… a car is quiet…SkyDrive cannot get anywhere near people simply too dangerous… A car can park in any parking lot. SkyDrive it’s impractical short range limited landing takeoff zone noise… That said it is really cool I would like to fly one but I don’t want to disturb anyone it has to be almost in the middle of nowhere…this world has enough noise pollution.

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