{"id":157099,"date":"2023-02-05T15:23:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T21:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/worlds-first-flying-electric-racecar-is-eyeing-the-olympics"},"modified":"2023-02-05T15:23:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T21:23:43","slug":"worlds-first-flying-electric-racecar-is-eyeing-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/worlds-first-flying-electric-racecar-is-eyeing-the-olympics","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first flying electric racecar is eyeing the Olympics"},"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\/_l5MyOpKD38?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The company hopes to make the new cars part of the Olympic sport.<\/p>\n<p>Australia-based company Airspeeder, which engineered the world\u2019s first flying electric racing car, is now training its electric pods to be part of the Olympic sport one day.<\/p>\n<p>Airspeeder is flying racing pods which it hopes could be a demonstration sport at Brisbane Olympics 2032, according to a report by ABC News published on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the future, it is pod racing in the sky\u2026 it\u2019s Star Wars,\u201d the company\u2019s head of media Stephen Sidlo told ABC News.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Interesting Engineering is a cutting edge, leading community designed for all lovers of engineering, technology and science.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/worlds-first-flying-electric-racecar-is-eyeing-the-olympics\">Continue reading \u201cWorld\u2019s first flying electric racecar is eyeing the Olympics\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company hopes to make the new cars part of the Olympic sport. Australia-based company Airspeeder, which engineered the world\u2019s first flying electric racing car, is now training its electric pods to be part of the Olympic sport one day. Airspeeder is flying racing pods which it hopes could be a demonstration sport at Brisbane [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157099","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}