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Tech Mahindra (Pune, India) a supplier of digital transformation, consulting and enterprise re-engineering companies, is to collaborate with ASKA (Los Altos, Calif., U.S.), a drive-and-fly firm that gives a brand new -generation commuter car by combining the comfort of an vehicle, with the security, ease and effectivity of vertical takeoff and touchdown (VTOL) and brief takeoff and touchdown (STOL) flight.
This collaboration will leverage Tech Mahindra’s experience within the engineering area that comes with a long time of expertise of working with high aerospace and automotive prospects. Tech Mahindra will assist ASKA within the areas of design, evaluation, improvement of composites and superior supplies, crash dynamics (automotive and aerospace), battery and structural testing.
“We’re assured that our engagement with Tech Mahindra will enhance ASKA’s improvement, testing and certification course of to fulfill ASKA’s commercialization goal for 2026,” notes Man Kaplinsky, co-founder and CEO of ASKA. “Tech Mahindra’s purpose to ship tomorrow’s experiences right this moment, solidly helps our mission to unravel the worldwide drawback of site visitors congestion and enhance individuals’s high quality of life.”
ASKA is a four-seater electrical flying car that may drive like a automobile, in addition to take off vertically to fly like an plane, with a most flight vary of 250 miles on a single cost. It is usually outfitted with a spread extender engine that prices the batteries throughout flight.
“The event of drive-and-fly automobiles is an rising space of innovation globally, which may play an awesome function in creating greatest journey expertise with minimal infrastructure funding and low environmental impacts,” suggests Lakshmanan Chidambaram, president – Enterprise America, Tech Mahindra. “We stay up for creating synergies with ASKA by engaged on the engineering design and evaluation of fly-and-drive eVTOL.”
