{"id":115524,"date":"2020-11-06T22:22:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T06:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/watch-this-electric-wingsuit-take-flight-at-300-km-h-186-mph"},"modified":"2020-11-06T22:22:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T06:22:48","slug":"watch-this-electric-wingsuit-take-flight-at-300-km-h-186-mph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/watch-this-electric-wingsuit-take-flight-at-300-km-h-186-mph","title":{"rendered":"Watch this electric wingsuit take flight at 300 km\/h (186 mph)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/watch-this-electric-wingsuit-take-flight-at-300-km-h-186-mph.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BMW i EV technology isn\u2019t only working in two dimensions \u2014 now it\u2019s taking to the skies in an electric wingsuit.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2019\/07\/01\/tesla-electric-airplane-elon-musk\/\">the most conventional electric flight<\/a>, but that hasn\u2019t stopped the concept from progressing to its maiden flight. The electric wingsuit project has been in the works for three years, since it began as just a concept in the mind of air sports pioneer Peter Salzmann.<\/p>\n<p>With the collaboration of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.bmwgroup.com\/global\/article\/detail\/T0319960EN\/electric-mobility-in-new-spheres:-the-first-electrified-wingsuit-flight-powered-by-bmw-i\">BMW i and Designworks<\/a>, the group brought the electric wingsuit to life for Peter to test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BMW i EV technology isn\u2019t only working in two dimensions \u2014 now it\u2019s taking to the skies in an electric wingsuit. It\u2019s not the most conventional electric flight, but that hasn\u2019t stopped the concept from progressing to its maiden flight. The electric wingsuit project has been in the works for three years, since it began [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115524","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=115524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}