{"id":1078,"date":"2017-04-21T19:22:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T19:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2017-04-21T19:22:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T19:22:58","slug":"revolutionary-all-electric-flying-car-successfully-completes-maiden-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/revolutionary-all-electric-flying-car-successfully-completes-maiden-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolutionary All-Electric Flying Car Successfully Completes Maiden Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/450px-Seatbelt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-796\" src=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/450px-Seatbelt-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"450px-Seatbelt\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/450px-Seatbelt-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/450px-Seatbelt.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>The Lilium Jet promises to revolutionize the way we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\" target=\"_blank\">travel<\/a>. The electric flying car has just completed its maiden test flight in Germany.<br \/>\nLilium, the Munich-based startup developing the vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) jet, has successfully completed a series of tests using a two-seat prototype of the larger craft it is eventually planning to create.<br \/>\nThe basic concept is that the new vehicle has the benefits of a helicopter. While taking off, it doesn\u2019t require vast airfields or runways, and once airborne, the craft is able to achieve the higher top speeds like a jet.<br \/>\nIn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/verge\/videos\/1417286841640988\/\" target=\"_blank\">a video<\/a> provided by the company, the aircraft can be seen taking off vertically like a helicopter. When in the air, the aircraft uses wing power to travel quietly and efficiently.<!--more--><br \/>\nThe jet is powered on nothing but electricity. 36 separate jet engines are mounted on the 10-meter long wings. On the wings, there are 12 movable flaps which are pointed downwards at take-off to provide vertical lift. And once airborne, the flaps gradually tilt into a horizontal position, providing forward acceleration.<br \/>\nThe Lilium Jet has a range of 190 miles and can travel at 190 miles per hour.<br \/>\nMunich-based Lilium is backed by investors who include Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstr\u00f6m. The prototype, they tested in Munich, has room for two people but the startup has developed a version that can seat five and could be used to transport passengers.<br \/>\nAs the jet will be capable of vertical take-off and landing, it could be used for urban air-taxi and ride-sharing services. Lilium users would hail the flying taxi with an app, as people currently do with Uber cars.<br \/>\nIn a not so distant future, Lilium jet could just easily land in your backyard or on top of your office building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lilium Jet promises to revolutionize the way we travel. The electric flying car has just completed its maiden test flight in Germany. Lilium, the Munich-based startup developing the vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) jet, has successfully completed a series &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/revolutionary-all-electric-flying-car-successfully-completes-maiden-flight\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,33,32,2],"tags":[73,58,10,18,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}