{"id":96288,"date":"2019-09-16T07:02:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T14:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/watch-all-electric-air-taxi-volocopter-make-debut-urban-flight-in-stuttgart"},"modified":"2019-09-16T07:02:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T14:02:25","slug":"watch-all-electric-air-taxi-volocopter-make-debut-urban-flight-in-stuttgart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/watch-all-electric-air-taxi-volocopter-make-debut-urban-flight-in-stuttgart","title":{"rendered":"Watch all-electric air taxi \u2018Volocopter\u2019 make debut urban flight in Stuttgart"},"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\/mH1zk0KOFho?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Volocopter, an electric air taxi startup backed by Daimler, had its urban flight debut during a presentation at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart.<\/p>\n<p>We previously reported on Volocopter in 2017 when <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2017\/08\/10\/all-electric-vertical-take-off-and-landing-aircraft-volocopter-daimler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">they received a \u20ac25 million ($30 million) investment led by Daimler<\/a>, Mercedes-Benz\u2019s parent company, and a few other investors.<\/p>\n<p>The startup is developing an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOLs) aircraft aimed at creating electric air taxi services in urban areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volocopter, an electric air taxi startup backed by Daimler, had its urban flight debut during a presentation at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart. We previously reported on Volocopter in 2017 when they received a \u20ac25 million ($30 million) investment led by Daimler, Mercedes-Benz\u2019s parent company, and a few other investors. The startup is developing an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96288","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}