{"id":123697,"date":"2021-06-11T17:22:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T00:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/battery-breakthrough-makes-flying-cars-commercially-viable"},"modified":"2021-06-11T17:22:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T00:22:50","slug":"battery-breakthrough-makes-flying-cars-commercially-viable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/battery-breakthrough-makes-flying-cars-commercially-viable","title":{"rendered":"Battery breakthrough makes flying cars commercially viable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/battery-breakthrough-makes-flying-cars-commercially-viable.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018I would expect these vehicles to make 15 trips, twice a day during rush hour to justify the cost of the vehicles,\u2019 says researcher.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The key is to rapidly heat the battery to a certain temperature using a nickel foil, which then allows for ultra quick charging without causing any damage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think flying cars have the potential to eliminate a lot of time and increase productivity and open the sky corridors to transportation,\u201d Dr Wang said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommercially, I would expect these vehicles to make 15 trips, twice a day during rush hour to justify the cost of the vehicles. The first use will probably be from a city to an airport carrying three to four people about 50 miles.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018I would expect these vehicles to make 15 trips, twice a day during rush hour to justify the cost of the vehicles,\u2019 says researcher. The key is to rapidly heat the battery to a certain temperature using a nickel foil, which then allows for ultra quick charging without causing any damage. \u201cI think flying cars [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123697","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}