{"id":90847,"date":"2019-05-17T10:04:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T17:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/this-startup-is-planning-a-flying-taxi-service-that-costs-about-the-same-as-normal-taxis"},"modified":"2019-05-17T10:04:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T17:04:13","slug":"this-startup-is-planning-a-flying-taxi-service-that-costs-about-the-same-as-normal-taxis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/this-startup-is-planning-a-flying-taxi-service-that-costs-about-the-same-as-normal-taxis","title":{"rendered":"This startup is planning a flying taxi service that costs about the same as normal taxis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-startup-is-planning-a-flying-taxi-service-that-costs-about-the-same-as-normal-taxis2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A flying taxi that you can order through an app? This German company plans to make that a reality in the next six years.<\/p>\n<p>Munich-based startup Lilium unveiled its five-seater electric air taxi prototype on Thursday. The Lilium Jet, which conducted its first flight earlier this month, is part of an app-based flying taxi service that the company expects will be \u201cfully-operational in various cities around the world by 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The battery-powered jet is capable of traveling 300 kilometers (186 miles) in 60 minutes on a single charge, and will connect cities through a network of landing pads. Commuters will be able to book rides from their nearest landing pad through a smartphone app.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/05\/16\/tech\/lilium-flying-taxi-germany\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A flying taxi that you can order through an app? This German company plans to make that a reality in the next six years. Munich-based startup Lilium unveiled its five-seater electric air taxi prototype on Thursday. The Lilium Jet, which conducted its first flight earlier this month, is part of an app-based flying taxi service [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90847","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=90847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}