{"id":166776,"date":"2023-07-02T11:22:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T16:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/a-300000-electric-flying-car-just-won-approval-for-test-flights"},"modified":"2023-07-02T11:22:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T16:22:30","slug":"a-300000-electric-flying-car-just-won-approval-for-test-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/a-300000-electric-flying-car-just-won-approval-for-test-flights","title":{"rendered":"A $300,000 electric flying car just won approval for test flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-300000-electric-flying-car-just-won-approval-for-test-flights2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A fully electric flying car that\u2019ll cost about $300,000 just won approval to start testing on the road \u2013 and in the air.<\/p>\n<p>Alef Aeronautics, a Californian automaker, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/alef-becomes-the-first-car-certified-to-fly-301863749.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">press release<\/a> it had received a Special Airworthiness Certification from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the Model A.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first such approval for a flight-capable car, according to the startup, which has been backed by the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/armada-aeronautics-inc\/company_financials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">SpaceX<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fully electric flying car that\u2019ll cost about $300,000 just won approval to start testing on the road \u2013 and in the air. Alef Aeronautics, a Californian automaker, said in a press release it had received a Special Airworthiness Certification from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the Model A. It\u2019s the first such approval [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166776","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}