{"id":49543,"date":"2025-02-24T10:12:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T10:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/a-real-life-flying-car-takes-to-the-skies\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T10:12:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T10:12:56","slug":"a-real-life-flying-car-takes-to-the-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/a-real-life-flying-car-takes-to-the-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"A real-life flying car takes to the skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">An aeronautical company in the US has released footage showing a concept version of its flying car performing a vertical take-off before flying over an SUV.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Jim Dukhovny, the CEO of Alef Aeronautics, told the BBC&#8217;s senior technology reporter Chris Vallance, that he had thousands of pre-orders and hoped to start production within 12 months.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">For around $300,000 (\u00a3237,000) the company says buyers will get an electric flying car with a predicted airborne range of 110km (68 miles). But taking a friend for a spin may prove tricky &#8211; the cockpit only has enough room for one and a half people.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">As Vallance points out, Alef Aeronautics are not the only ones trying to make flying cars take off with buyers, and there are huge technological and regulatory hurdles to overcome.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\"><i id=\"video-produced-by-ian-casey-and-serene-khalifeh\" class=\"sc-7dcfb11b-0 kKcaog\">Video produced by Ian Casey and Serene Khalifeh<!-- --><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cx20nwlqe07o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An aeronautical company in the US has released footage showing a concept version of its flying car performing a vertical take-off before flying over an SUV. Jim Dukhovny, the CEO of Alef Aeronautics, told the BBC&#8217;s senior technology reporter Chris Vallance, that he had thousands of pre-orders and hoped to start production within 12 months. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62],"tags":[558,3599,976,1290,542],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49545,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49543\/revisions\/49545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}