{"id":167498,"date":"2023-07-14T10:25:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T15:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/flying-electric-car-takes-off-in-the-us-as-ceo-discusses-industrys-future-video"},"modified":"2023-07-14T10:25:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T15:25:04","slug":"flying-electric-car-takes-off-in-the-us-as-ceo-discusses-industrys-future-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/flying-electric-car-takes-off-in-the-us-as-ceo-discusses-industrys-future-video","title":{"rendered":"Flying electric car takes off in the US as CEO discusses industry\u2019s future [Video]"},"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\/WfaEOrBwpHs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Flying cars are becoming closer to reality than what sci-fi movies may lead you to believe. Another electric flying car \u201ctook flight\u201d this week in the US. CEO Doron Merdinger of Miami-based Doroni Aerospace successfully piloted a two-seater personal <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/guides\/evtol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vertical takeoff and landing<\/a> (eVTOL) aircraft that fits in your garage.<\/p>\n<p>Electric flying cars are all of a sudden taking the US by storm. Last month, California-based Alef Aeronautics revealed its 100% electric flying car, \u201cModel A,\u201d the first of its kind to <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2023\/06\/27\/worlds-first-flying-car-gets-flight-certified-electric\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">receive legal approval to fly<\/a> from the US government.<\/p>\n<p>According to Alef, the Model A has a 200-mile driving range and can fly for 110 miles. The company says it had gathered over 440 orders for its $300K electric flying car within three months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying cars are becoming closer to reality than what sci-fi movies may lead you to believe. Another electric flying car \u201ctook flight\u201d this week in the US. CEO Doron Merdinger of Miami-based Doroni Aerospace successfully piloted a two-seater personal vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft that fits in your garage. Electric flying cars are all [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1496,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-law","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167498","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}