{"id":251247,"date":"2024-05-18T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/this-5000-electric-drone-can-carry-you-and-your-brave-friends\/"},"modified":"2024-05-18T11:46:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T11:46:29","slug":"this-5000-electric-drone-can-carry-you-and-your-brave-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/this-5000-electric-drone-can-carry-you-and-your-brave-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"This $5,000 electric drone can carry you and your brave friends"},"content":{"rendered":"
As I peruse Alibaba for all sorts of fun and interesting electric vehicles, I often stumble across seemingly outlandish products that often have a real use case behind them. The best of those make it into the recurring Awesome Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week column, and that\u2019s precisely where this man-carrying drone lands today.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n To be fair, I\u2019m not sure the main purpose of this flying EV is to carry people.<\/p>\n They do advertise it with a few images of a person suspended beneath it to show off the drone\u2019s carrying capacity. And at least one of the photos seems like it\u2019s actually non-recreational as the guy appears to be in the process of accessing a communications tower platform. <\/p>\n I guess for those who don\u2019t want to spend half an hour climbing a ladder to change a light bulb or swap a connector, a drone might be a shortcut to some of these…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n