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  eVX Goes Into Production For 2025 Sales                                                  Source:  Suzuki Suzuki EV Debut at Auto Expo 2023 S uzuki has unveiled its 1st "Global Strategic EV", eVX, with a range on a charge of 342 miles.  Here are the pertinent details: eVX is a new design identity for Suzuki Just debuted at Auto Expo in New Delhi It's 169" long, 71" wide and 63" tall Modern, hefty styling with V-shaped LED headlights, an illuminated front grill and LED taillights with 3D graphics that display 4x4 electric powertrain 60kWh battery Range on a charge of 342 miles of all-electric driving Suzuki's 1st "global EV" will go into production for distribution in 2025 with first markets expected to be Europe and Asia.  

  eVX Goes Into Production For 2025 Sales                                                  Source:  Suzuki Suzuki's First "Global Strategic EV" S uzuki has unveiled its 1st "Global Strategic EV", eVX, with a range on a charge of 342 miles.  Here are the pertinent details: eVX is a new design identity for Suzuki Just debuted at Auto Expo in New Delhi It's 169" long, 71" wide and 63" tall Modern, hefty styling with V-shaped LED headlights, an illuminated front grill and LED taillights with 3D graphics that display 4x4 electric powertrain 60kWh battery Range on a charge of 342 miles of all-electric driving Suzuki's 1st "global EV" will go into production for distribution in 2025 with first markets expected to be Europe and Asia.  For more news stories like this,  Latest Innovations For Tomorrow

  2-Seat eVTOLs Made in Japan                                                  Source:  SkyDrive Hot Japanese Startup SkyDrive Japanese eVTOL startup SkyDrive intends to introduce flying taxi service at the World Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan.  The company just unveiled its new, two seat SD-05 eVTOL which will be the flying taxi vehicle taking passengers on short flights around the big event.  SD-05 is the next technological iteration on the original one-seat, sporty prototype SD-03 which has been successfully flown in demonstrations in Japan since it was introduced in 2020.  SkyDrive is a hot eVTOL startup with a partnership with Suzuki and millions of dollars in investment money bankrolling the development of its flying taxis. It just raised $66 million in a Series C funding round to build the SD-5's as well as its cargo ...

  Sky and Drive Commuting in Japan                                                        Source:  SkyDrive Automaker & Flying Car Startup Partner on Flying/Driving Taxis One of the world's leading automotive and motorcycle makers Suzuki and Japanese flying taxi startup SkyDrive are partnering to launch fleets of flying taxis, first in the Osaka Bay area of Japan in 2025.  SkyDrive's new vehicle called SD-XX is an eVTOL or electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle that operates like a helicopter and doesn't need a traditional runway to take-off from and land on.  Of big interest, SD-XX can drive to other locations once it lands.  SkyDrive has big backers in Toyota, Panasonic and Fujitsu.  SkyDrive intends to put the SD-XX prototype into commercial production in 2023....

  Sky and Drive Commuting in Japan                                                        Source:  SkyDrive Automaker & Flying Car Startup Partner on Flying/Driving Taxis One of the world's leading automotive and motorcycle makers Suzuki and Japanese flying taxi startup SkyDrive are partnering to launch fleets of flying taxis, first in the Osaka Bay area of Japan in 2025.  SkyDrive's new vehicle called SD-XX is an eVTOL or electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle that operates like a helicopter and doesn't need a traditional runway to take-off from and land on.  Of big interest, SD-XX can drive to other locations once it lands.  SkyDrive has big backers in Toyota, Panasonic and Fujitsu.  SkyDrive intends to put the SD-XX prototype into commercial production in 2023....

Toyota & Suzuki Invest in Each Other to Develop Electric and Autonomous Technologies Source:  Toyota New Global Example of the Rules of the Road to Innovation Toyota and Suzuki are taking small equity stakes in each other.  The purpose, according to the Japanese automakers, is to develop new innovative technologies and come out on top in the rapidly changing global automotive industry. Deepening Japanese Alliance This announcement deepens the alliance between the two global automakers with Toyota taking a 4.9% stake, amounting to $908 million, in the smaller rival Suzuki, which owns Mazda and Suburu.  Suzuki is investing $453 million in Toyota for 0.2% of Toyota shares. All About Developing Expensive Electric and Autonomous Technologies Today's R&D innovation tie-up between Suzuki and Toyota is another leading example of the technology partnerships in the global automotive industry.  It's all about joining forces, with big competitors, to defray...