{"id":310923,"date":"2020-01-17T12:22:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T06:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=310923"},"modified":"2020-01-17T12:43:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T07:13:26","slug":"toyota-investing-400-million-in-flying-car-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/toyota-investing-400-million-in-flying-car-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota investing $400 million in flying car company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese car giant Toyota said Thursday it is investing nearly $400 million in a company working on commercialising electric flying cars for &#8220;fast, quiet and affordable air transportation services&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The investment in Joby Aviation comes as the automaker looks to expand into new sectors as the industry rapidly transforms, with president Akio Toyoda pledging to move the firm &#8220;from a car manufacturer to a mobility company&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Air transportation has been a long-term goal for Toyota, and while we continue our work in the automobile business, this agreement sets our sights to the sky,&#8221; Toyoda said in a statement announcing the investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese car giant Toyota said Thursday it is investing nearly $400 million in a company working on commercialising electric flying cars for &#8220;fast, quiet and affordable air transportation services&#8221;. The investment in Joby Aviation comes as the automaker looks to expand into new sectors as the industry rapidly transforms, with president Akio Toyoda pledging to move the firm &#8220;from a car manufacturer to a mobility company&#8221;. &#8220;Air transportation has been a long-term goal for Toyota, and while we continue our work in the automobile business, this agreement sets our sights to the sky,&#8221; Toyoda said in a statement announcing the [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310923","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=310923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}