{"id":109888,"date":"2020-07-13T18:57:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T01:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/skydrive-readies-evtol-flying-car-for-its-first-public-sortie"},"modified":"2020-07-13T18:57:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T01:57:44","slug":"skydrive-readies-evtol-flying-car-for-its-first-public-sortie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/skydrive-readies-evtol-flying-car-for-its-first-public-sortie","title":{"rendered":"SkyDrive readies eVTOL \u2018flying car\u2019 for its first public sortie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/skydrive-readies-evtol-flying-car-for-its-first-public-sortie2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japanese start-up SkyDrive is preparing to fly its electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) test aircraft in public for the first time in August, as it sets its sights on building a thriving air taxi and urban air mobility market in the country on the back the developmental battery-powered design.<\/p>\n<p>SkyDrive says it began flight testing a proof of concept model at its test centre in Toyota in December 2019, and the aircraft\u201d completed its technical verification phase\u201d in March.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/skydrive-readies-evtol-flying-car-for-its-first-public-sortie3.jpg\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" width=\"3840\" height=\"2630\"  ><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese start-up SkyDrive is preparing to fly its electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) test aircraft in public for the first time in August, as it sets its sights on building a thriving air taxi and urban air mobility market in the country on the back the developmental battery-powered design. SkyDrive says it began flight [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}