{"id":168913,"date":"2023-08-02T14:30:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T19:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/this-flying-electric-car-gets-the-green-light-for-test-rides-in-the-us"},"modified":"2023-08-02T14:30:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T19:30:57","slug":"this-flying-electric-car-gets-the-green-light-for-test-rides-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/this-flying-electric-car-gets-the-green-light-for-test-rides-in-the-us","title":{"rendered":"This flying electric car gets the green light for test rides in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-flying-electric-car-gets-the-green-light-for-test-rides-in-the-us3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Transforming cars that go from tearing up the tarmac to soaring through the skies at the touch of a button. It sounds like science fiction, but that might be the future we\u2019re looking at, as America\u2019s regulatory body for commercial flight and transportation, the Federal Aviation Administration, certified to test a bona fide flying car.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle \u2014 which has a flying range of around 177km on a full charge \u2014 is the brainchild of Alef Automotive, a Californian startup backed by high-profile venture capitalist Tim Draper (whose other seed investments include Tesla and SpaceX).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transforming cars that go from tearing up the tarmac to soaring through the skies at the touch of a button. It sounds like science fiction, but that might be the future we\u2019re looking at, as America\u2019s regulatory body for commercial flight and transportation, the Federal Aviation Administration, certified to test a bona fide flying car. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168913","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=168913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}