«The company I founded 15 years ago is now set to build sensationally elegant and classy electric motorcars and
electric planes for decades to come.»
Not exact matches
Because of that familiarity, Kumar thinks the public, charter
plane operators and companies looking
for a new corporate jet will feel comfortable flying in a hybrid
electric plane.
The
electric plane will be able to take off and land vertically, and Uber hopes to have a fleet of 50 ready
for testing in Dallas and Dubai by 2020.
The Facebook team also covered Aquila with solar panels and fitted the craft with batteries and an
electric motor so the
plane can stay up in the sky
for 3 months.
Emirates is still pondering engine options
for now, evaluating Rolls - Royce and General
Electric options, but the
planes should be delivered starting in 2020.
But there's a problem: finding the spare kilowatts to run these alloy - based de-icers
for long enough to safely eradicate ice is becoming a problem as modern
planes like the Boeing 787 replace hydraulic controls with power - hungry
electric servos.
In the next step toward achieving this, Airbus will make a next - generation two - seater
electric plane, set
for launch in 2017, and a four - seater
electric plane with a gas - powered range extender, set
for launch in 2019.
It might not be long before we're zooming around in
electric planes — at least
for short distances, says a German Aerospace Center expert in a DW interview.
When a German engineer gets off the
plane in Los Angeles
for the first time, he expects to be greeted by a vast forest of churning windmills powering the
electric grid, plus an array of solar batteries on the roof of every Starbucks.
The Tesla Model X broke the Guinness World Record
for electric towing by pulling the Boeing
plane.
Having energized and freed the wall - hung painting so that it dispatched
electric fans and stuffed birds into the gallery's airspace, Rauschenberg now flipped the picture
plane to become a horizontal, flatbed platform
for sculptural invention and gleaning.
If and as this happens, a whole range of low - carbon fuels, and energy efficient on - the - ground practices (using
electric tows instead of on -
plane power
for taxiing, etc...) could begin, finally, to drop emissions.
These announcements, along with news such as EasyJet's announcement that they will have passengers in
electric planes within a decade, indicate a resurgence in the excitement around the possibilities
for battery - powered
planes.
(Aerobus has a battery
electric light
plane, but it's only good
for short range applications.)
Some of the things covered are: What Tesla Motors» mission is, SolarCity (mentioning again the imminent IPO), Musk's idea
for an
electric plane that would be much more efficient than the current generation of
planes, why hydrogen fuel cells won't make it in cars, the «hyperloop» 5th mode of transportation -LRB-!?)
He holds speed records
for both
electric motorcycles and
electric planes.
From an
electric assist Brompton folding bike to this insanely compact folding bike concept, there are more and more options
for folks who want to take their bicycle with them on the
plane, train or in the car.
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