{"id":540,"date":"2018-02-16T08:12:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T08:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/?p=540"},"modified":"2018-02-16T08:12:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T08:12:58","slug":"air-taxi-startup-joby-aviation-raises-100-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/16\/air-taxi-startup-joby-aviation-raises-100-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Air-Taxi Startup Joby Aviation Raises $100 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-541 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/67.jpg\" alt=\"Joby's future is now linked to venture capital from Toyota, JetBlue and Intel.  Joby\/Uber\" width=\"324\" height=\"193\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"field-body\">\n<p>Joby&#8217;s future is now linked to venture capital from Toyota, JetBlue and Intel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-credit\">\n<p>Joby\/Uber<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"linkTargets-processed external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jobyaviation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joby\u2019s website<\/a>\u00a0says, \u201cMore than a billion people on planet Earth spend more than an hour a day in traffic. Transportation emissions are one of the largest sources of pollution.\u201d Thanks to the $100 million Joby just raised from a variety of investors, including the venture capital arms of JetBlue, Toyota and Intel, the startup might be well on its way to creating the safe, affordable and sustainable air taxi the company\u2019s engineers have been dreaming of for a decade.<\/p>\n<p>When added to earlier funding rounds, Joby now has approximately $130 million on hand to lead the development of the new air taxi.<\/p>\n<p>With a dozen and a half other electric or hybrid vehicles now planned for the future, Joby\u2019s strategy has been different over the near decade of the company\u2019s existence by traditionally keeping plans for its vehicles out of the public eye.<\/p>\n<p>Joby does report its electric vehicle is \u201cabsolutely all new,\u201d however, and that in addition to zero emissions the aircraft will be ultra-quiet and just fast enough to convince people not to drive.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flyingmag.com\/\">FLYING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joby&#8217;s future is now linked to venture capital from Toyota, JetBlue and Intel. Joby\/Uber &nbsp; &nbsp; Joby\u2019s website\u00a0says, \u201cMore than a billion people on planet Earth spend more than an hour a day in traffic. Transportation emissions are one of the largest sources of pollution.\u201d Thanks to the $100 million Joby just raised from a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aeropb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}