{"id":134524,"date":"2022-01-22T10:23:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T18:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/rolls-royces-electric-plane-breaks-the-world-speed-record"},"modified":"2022-01-22T10:23:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T18:23:30","slug":"rolls-royces-electric-plane-breaks-the-world-speed-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/rolls-royces-electric-plane-breaks-the-world-speed-record","title":{"rendered":"Rolls-Royce\u2019s Electric Plane Breaks The World Speed Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rolls-royces-electric-plane-breaks-the-world-speed-record2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rolls-Royce today announced that its Spirit of Innovation aircraft has officially become the world\u2019s fastest all-electric vehicle. The ambitious aircraft attempted the feat in November, giving the British company the confidence that it had set a new record. However, the firm had to wait until now to receive confirmation from aviation bodies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/rolls-royce-fastest-electric-plane\/\">The Spirit of Innovation program<\/a> seeks to pioneer sustainable aviation by proving the capabilities of electric flight. Those behind the program are keen to enable a future of low-carbon air travel.<\/p>\n<p>The plane first took off the Ministry of Defence\u2019s Boscombe Down site in the English county of Wiltshire in September last year. A 400kW (500+hp) electric powertrain helped the aircraft on its way, a piece of equipment that is backed by what is dubbed the most power-dense battery pack ever put together for a plane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolls-Royce today announced that its Spirit of Innovation aircraft has officially become the world\u2019s fastest all-electric vehicle. The ambitious aircraft attempted the feat in November, giving the British company the confidence that it had set a new record. However, the firm had to wait until now to receive confirmation from aviation bodies. The Spirit of [\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-134524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134524","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=134524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}