{"id":130416,"date":"2021-11-11T16:03:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T00:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/japan-startup-targets-supercar-users-with-700000-hoverbike"},"modified":"2021-11-11T16:03:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T00:03:40","slug":"japan-startup-targets-supercar-users-with-700000-hoverbike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/japan-startup-targets-supercar-users-with-700000-hoverbike","title":{"rendered":"Japan startup targets supercar users with $700,000 hoverbike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japan-startup-targets-supercar-users-with-700000-hoverbike2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOKYO, Oct 26 (Reuters) \u2014 A Japanese startup backed by soccer player Keisuke Honda hopes to persuade wealthy consumers to swap their supercar for a 77.7 million yen ($680,000) hoverbike which went on sale on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cXTurismo Limited Edition\u201d from Tokyo-based drone startup A.L.I. Technologies is equipped with a conventional engine and four battery-powered motors and promises to fly for 40 minutes at up to 100 kph (62 mph).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil now the choice has been to move on the ground or at scale in the sky. We hope to offer a new method of movement,\u201d Chief Executive Daisuke Katano told Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO, Oct 26 (Reuters) \u2014 A Japanese startup backed by soccer player Keisuke Honda hopes to persuade wealthy consumers to swap their supercar for a 77.7 million yen ($680,000) hoverbike which went on sale on Tuesday. The \u201cXTurismo Limited Edition\u201d from Tokyo-based drone startup A.L.I. Technologies is equipped with a conventional engine and four battery-powered [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130416","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=130416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}