{"id":23777,"date":"2025-02-24T09:17:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T09:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/a-real-life-flying-car-takes-to-the-skies\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T09:17:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T09:17:35","slug":"a-real-life-flying-car-takes-to-the-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/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":23778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[558,2544,5559,4133,542],"class_list":["post-23777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-car","tag-flying","tag-reallife","tag-skies","tag-takes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23779,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23777\/revisions\/23779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}