{"id":125554,"date":"2021-07-27T14:22:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T21:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/watch-joby-aviations-electric-air-taxi-complete-a-150-mile-flight"},"modified":"2021-07-27T14:22:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T21:22:41","slug":"watch-joby-aviations-electric-air-taxi-complete-a-150-mile-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/watch-joby-aviations-electric-air-taxi-complete-a-150-mile-flight","title":{"rendered":"Watch Joby Aviation\u2019s electric air taxi complete a 150-mile flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5RpqYuce6Ao?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It is among the longest flights by an electric aircraft.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The company, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/1\/15\/21068135\/joby-aviation-toyota-flying-air-taxi-investment-amount\">backed by Toyota<\/a> and recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/12\/2\/22086597\/uber-sells-flying-taxi-elevate-joby-aviation\">acquired Uber\u2019s flying taxi division<\/a>, has said that it plans to have a full-scale air taxi service in operation by 2024, including regional trips. The point of the 150-mile flight was to demonstrate how far its aircraft could fly on a single charge, to allay concerns about the vehicle\u2019s range and battery. If you want to fly from New York City to Montauk, Joby wanted to show that it can get you there without running out of juice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve achieved something that many thought impossible with today\u2019s battery technology,\u201d JoeBen Bevirt, founder and CEO of Joby, said in a statement. \u201cBy doing so we\u2019ve taken the first step towards making convenient, emissions-free air travel between places like San Francisco and Lake Tahoe, Houston and Austin, or Los Angeles and San Diego an everyday reality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is among the longest flights by an electric aircraft. The company, which is backed by Toyota and recently acquired Uber\u2019s flying taxi division, has said that it plans to have a full-scale air taxi service in operation by 2024, including regional trips. The point of the 150-mile flight was to demonstrate how far its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125554","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}