{"id":99632,"date":"2019-12-11T12:05:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T20:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/first-commercial-electric-plane-takes-flight-in-canada"},"modified":"2019-12-11T12:05:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T20:05:13","slug":"first-commercial-electric-plane-takes-flight-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/first-commercial-electric-plane-takes-flight-in-canada","title":{"rendered":"First commercial electric plane takes flight in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-commercial-electric-plane-takes-flight-in-canada.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s first fully electric commercial aircraft took its inaugural test flight on Tuesday, taking off from the Canadian city of Vancouver and offering hope that airlines may one day end their polluting emissions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis proves that commercial aviation in all-electric form can work,\u201d said Roei Ganzarski, chief executive of Seattle-based engineering firm magniX.<\/p>\n<p>The company designed the plane\u2019s motor and worked in partnership with Harbour Air, which ferries half a million passengers a year between Vancouver, Whistler ski resort and nearby islands and coastal communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s first fully electric commercial aircraft took its inaugural test flight on Tuesday, taking off from the Canadian city of Vancouver and offering hope that airlines may one day end their polluting emissions. \u201cThis proves that commercial aviation in all-electric form can work,\u201d said Roei Ganzarski, chief executive of Seattle-based engineering firm magniX. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99632","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}