{"id":274949,"date":"2019-05-17T05:29:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T05:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=274949"},"modified":"2019-05-17T05:34:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T05:34:50","slug":"jet-powered-flying-taxi-unveiled-following-first-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/jet-powered-flying-taxi-unveiled-following-first-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Jet-powered flying taxi unveiled following first flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s first all-electric vertical take-off and landing passenger jet has been unveiled after completing its first flight.<\/p>\n<p>German startup Lilium aims to have a fleet of the five-seat aircraft &#8212; which can operate with a pilot or in drone mode &#8212; flying in cities worldwide by 2025, providing a pay-per-ride service that will be emission-free, five times faster than a car and produce less noise than a motorbike.<\/p>\n<p>The plane will have a 300-kilometer (186-mile) range, allowing it link New York and Boston. A short hop between John F Kennedy International Airport and Manhattan will cost about $70 per passenger, making it cheaper than a helicopter and competitive with top-end limousine services, Chief Commercial Officer (COO) Remo Gerber said in an interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s first all-electric vertical take-off and landing passenger jet has been unveiled after completing its first flight. German startup Lilium aims to have a fleet of the five-seat aircraft &#8212; which can operate with a pilot or in drone mode &#8212; flying in cities worldwide by 2025, providing a pay-per-ride service that will be emission-free, five times faster than a car and produce less noise than a motorbike. The plane will have a 300-kilometer (186-mile) range, allowing it link New York and Boston. A short hop between John F Kennedy International Airport and Manhattan will cost about $70 per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}