{"id":176042,"date":"2023-11-14T17:22:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T23:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/joby-shows-off-electric-air-taxis-in-new-york-targeting-2025-launch-date"},"modified":"2023-11-14T17:22:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T23:22:22","slug":"joby-shows-off-electric-air-taxis-in-new-york-targeting-2025-launch-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/joby-shows-off-electric-air-taxis-in-new-york-targeting-2025-launch-date","title":{"rendered":"Joby shows off electric air taxis in New York, targeting 2025 launch date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/joby-shows-off-electric-air-taxis-in-new-york-targeting-2025-launch-date2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK, Nov 13 (Reuters) \u2014 Electric air taxis could be transporting passengers from JFK Airport to downtown Manhattan by 2025 \u2014 on quiet, emissions-free journeys that take around seven minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturer <a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/joby-aviation-build-air-taxi-production-plant-ohio-2023-09-18\/\" referrerPolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" class=\"\">Joby Aviation<\/a> <a data-testid=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/companies\/JOBY.N\" target=\"_blank\" referrerPolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" class=\"\">(JOBY.N)<\/a> carried out an exhibition flight at the Downtown Manhattan Heliport in New York on Sunday, the city\u2019s first-ever electric air taxi flight and the first time Joby has flown in an urban setting.<\/p>\n<p>The craft can recharge in about five minutes, while passengers are unloading and boarding, said CEO JoeBen Bevirt. The idea is that travelers will book their trip, similar to a rideshare app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, Nov 13 (Reuters) \u2014 Electric air taxis could be transporting passengers from JFK Airport to downtown Manhattan by 2025 \u2014 on quiet, emissions-free journeys that take around seven minutes. Manufacturer Joby Aviation (JOBY.N) carried out an exhibition flight at the Downtown Manhattan Heliport in New York on Sunday, the city\u2019s first-ever electric air [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176042","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=176042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}