Everything about this article is stupid, from the first line to the last. None of it makes engineering sense.
These planes do not exist and never will exist. Unless there is a quantum leap in battery capacity, the numbers just don’t add up.
“These planes do not exist and never will exist. Unless there is a quantum leap in battery capacity, the numbers just don’t add up.”
How do the numbers not add up?
“the numbers just don’t add up.”
How does going electric change the economic equation?
Our electric motor is about 20 times less expensive than a similarly-size turboprop, and about a 100 times less expensive than the cheapest turbofan. More importantly, maintenance costs are more than 100 times lower. These lower operating costs will make 19-seater electric aircraft competitive to 70-seater turboprop aircraft.
Agree. It doesn’t make any economic sense either.
Everything the left does is stupid and counterproductive.