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So how long does it take to recharge?
An hour. So crossing the country only takes 27 weeks.
Excellent. The Babylon Bee called with a job offer.
The prototype was lost due to a fire in the battery compartment in 2020. No joke.
Will make flight 800 look like a kid’s birthday cake.
I suggest putting Bill Gates on it, then fly toward the ocean, and forget about it.
WooHoo… 8 fucking minutes. Did it even get to altitude? Wait for the in-flight “refueling” with a diesel generator in a cargo plane with a long stiff extension cord shaped like a giant dick with 2 peeholes (+ & -).
That’s funny. Not only that but with the weight of the battery how many low iq suckers can it carry. 1, maybe 2?
It will have solar panels on the top of the wings/fuselage. On landing the props will drive generators to recharge the batteries while on its glide path. After that the passengers had better learn how to fly.
They got the idea from nature…
Technically, that’s an internal combustion engine of sorts. Definitely NOT just a transfer of electrons, but real chemical metabolic reactions going on.
The 9 passengers were dragonflies, maxed out the payload capacity.
They were helping it fly. That’s why they got 8 minutes.
Oh, I think this is actually great!!! Exhibit A for the absurdity of replacing fossil fuels in the near term … an electric airplane that barely exceeded the length of the first flight by the Wright Brothers in Kitty Hawk.
Yeah, we are going to have a functioning economy … including steel mills, etc. using green energy … Uh, no …. Not in 10 years (or maybe ever???).
But, I forgot, the purpose of the ‘green’ energy movement is to get the idiots to buy into it, resulting in the economic bullet in the head (after looming ‘everything bubble’ crash hits in relatively short order) to make us all slaves (except for the ‘masters of the universe’).
Some EEEEE-VILLLL mo-fos out there for sure!!
A measly 1,500 feet, not even high enough to recover from a stall.
Fuck that shit
That will not get 8 passengers from Spokane to Coeur D’Alene.
Two gallon of Gas or Diesel which is less than $10 will do the same in less than 1/2 hour.
You can get a quick battery recharge I am told by flying underneath thunderstorms.
Nice. He’s up to 56 views now.
And were their any passengers on board, or would that have reduced the duration to only 1 minute?
No passengers and no luggage/ cargo….
altitude 3500 feet
One battery pack $ 300,000 replacement
Range 150-200miles in ideal condition with a tail wind
900kw/h battery
one battery pack and two motors = No redundancy
Israeli company – so can be trusted to tell the truth /s
Looks to be another tax Dollar taker
At least when the lithium goes supernova it’ll only burn seagulls.
The lithium battery is located underneath the operator/passenger area. My question is do these come with ejection seats as you will burn up before “reentry” landing.
Actually this could be kinda fun. Like interactive fireworks!
The hamster in the back charging the battery was losing its mind.
When John Kerry, Al Gore, Bill Gates and Herr SchwabenKlause start using them for Trans-Atlantic flights to Davos, where they blow each other and make “Plans for Us”, I might “Consider” it.
Or NOT. But I could certainly hope for a catastrophic Battery Failure while they were onboard……
Meet your Crew!
Well-cooked grits….
Battery – 4697 kg battery, 900kWh
191.6W/kg – just under half what they say is needed for practical electric aircraft.
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About 27.12 gallons of Jet-A, about 74 kg, contains the same amount of energy, unless I fucked the math up.
8 minutes? What kind of range if you’re pulling a trailer? Asking for a friend.
What kind of range if you have a 75mph headwind?
Another problem: lithium batteries perform poorly in freezing temperatures and planes need to fly high where the temperatures are usually freezing. Just sayin.
OH THE HUMANITY !!!
Please correct if wrong – it can fly 19 passengers for 120 miles before a 8 hr. recharge, as I have read.
Yeah sure it can AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
8 mins. because that’s how far the batteries would take it. And as I noted below, it only attained an altitude of 1,500 feet which isn’t high enough to recover from a stall. Rolls Royce spent $250K to retro-fit a single seat plane that set a speed record. It too could only fly for 8 mins. To do the required two runs it had to spend a day on the ground recharging for the second qualifier. Electric planes are a joke and will never replace conventional aircraft and jets.