[Red Badger]

VIDEO

https://youtu.be/5mM9QPcOgeI

[Red Badger]

EV AVIATION PING!................

[small farm girl]

How are they generating the electricity? And will you be able to fly it with a Xbox controller?

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Just imagine the fireball!

[Yo-Yo]

Clickable link: https://youtu.be/5mM9QPcOgeI

[monkeyshine]

Looks like a miniature Spruce Goose.
Since it’s EV can we call it the Juice Goose?

[ought-six]

Range of 500 miles, and speed of 200 mph. It can serve a purpose, if the price is right.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I can't believe how the VC money flows to anybody with a business plan that says " Our mission to help decarbonize industry XYZ."

You can "decarbonize" to the maximum extent possible and it MIGHT reduce total global carbon fuel use 0.001%.

I saw a good analysis yesterday that showed how much "decarbonization" will occur when half of the WORLD's automobile fleet is all EVs. It was pathetically small, less than 5%.

CO2 in our lungs reaches 40,000–50,000 ppm. Each human exhales 2.3 pounds of CO2 per day. Earth’s 8 billion people produce 18.4 billion pounds of CO2 per day

Humans are 1/40 of all CO2-excreting life on Earth. Overall CO2 excreted by the total animal and fungal biomass on the planet is 736 billion pounds of CO2 per day.

Daily CO2 emissions from all worldwide human industrial sources in 2020 were 35.2 billion pounds.

The entire animal and fungal biomass puts out more than 20 times as much CO2 as all industrial emissions.

This ignores CO2 emissions from natural sources such as volcanoes.

[ryderann]

Anyone else remember back in the 60s, if you wanted to fly into Washington National (DCA) it had to be on an Electra...nothing larger?

[PGR88]

I’ll order a fleet of 250 or so! Right now!

Make that a $9 billion pre-order book!!

That’s how you do PR for a stock listing or bank loan

[alloysteel]

But the BATTERIES! What about the batteries?

Now if it is operating on hydrogen fuel cells, it might work.

Unicorn farts and pixie dust are in very short supply.

[moovova]

Dude wants to “democratize aviation”.

[exnavy]

The democracy or democratic aviation. What could possibly go wrong.

[Responsibility2nd]

EV planes. Cause EV busses worked out so well.

 

 

Fox Business

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[moovova]

Anybody notice the smoke "escaping" from the wheel when it landed? Smoke escaping from an electric airplane is not good.

Just ask Lucas Electric...

"https://www.ntnoa.org/LucasSmoke.htm"

[Responsibility2nd]

So Mr. 2nd you have the choice of flying Electra’s eSTOL or a Boeing 737 Max.

“Uhh, Nevermind. I think I’ll drive.”

[SauronOfMordor]

India's geography and demographics make it an ideal launch market for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM)

They will use the short takeoff feature to allow wealthy commuters to bypass urban congestion. After a few years in India and other Third World countries, they can apply for FAA certification.

[CodeToad]

Not a big deal. The $8 billion was not transferred. These are orders like, “OK, if you build them and they test out to the specs you claim, put us down for $8 billion in airplanes.”

Lots of startup aircraft companies get these type of loosey-goosey orders for fund raising purposes.

[Mr. Jeeves]

"India's geography and demographics make it an ideal launch market for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM)..."

Yes, it looks like crashing one of those in the Himalayas would be a lot safer than crashing an ATR-72. :)

[dennisw]

It has 8 toy propellers.

[Seruzawa]

There will be a lot of used ones for sale soon after.