{"id":71448,"date":"2017-07-31T15:47:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T22:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/a-real-life-all-electric-flying-car-just-took-off"},"modified":"2017-08-04T18:42:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T01:42:26","slug":"a-real-life-all-electric-flying-car-just-took-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/a-real-life-all-electric-flying-car-just-took-off","title":{"rendered":"A Real Life, All-Electric Flying Car Just Took Off"},"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\/ohig71bwRUE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Your flying car might finally be on the way as the all-electric, two-seater Lilium Jet took its first test flight this week. Lilium Aviation\u2019s prototype consumes around 90 percent less energy than drone-style aircraft and could be the transportation mode of the future.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve been begging the universe for a flying car for your entire life, you may soon be able to stop asking (sort of). This week, Germany-based company <a href=\"https:\/\/lilium.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lilium Aviation<\/a> took its new all-electric, two-seater vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) prototype for its first test flight. The jet was piloted remotely during the tests, but its creators say the vehicle\u2019s first manned flight will happen soon.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/a-real-life-all-electric-flying-car-just-took-off\/?sf101844030=1\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/a-real-life-all-electric-flying-car-jus...01844030=1<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your flying car might finally be on the way as the all-electric, two-seater Lilium Jet took its first test flight this week. Lilium Aviation\u2019s prototype consumes around 90 percent less energy than drone-style aircraft and could be the transportation mode of the future. If you\u2019ve been begging the universe for a flying car for your [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71448","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=71448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71544,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71448\/revisions\/71544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}