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Electric Airplanes Won’t Make Much of a Dent in Air Travel for Decades to Come
Reason: Batteries are nowhere near able to sustain wide-body airliners over flights measuring in the thousands of kilometers Exaggeration has become the default method for news reporting, and the possibility of commercial electric flight has been no exception, with repeated claims that these new planes will utterly change how we live. (spectrum.ieee.org) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
All-electric replacing the 777 to cross the pond? Not for a while. But don’t count out well-supported engineers with a purpose. Of course we had not even orbited when JFK said “..before this decade is out..” and in less than ten years the Apollo 11 crew splashed down safely. And that was a while ago.
This is just more or less click-bait to generate income and jobs for aviation journalists!
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Hundreds of companies around the world are racing to build electric planes; air travel is a significant source of the greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change. Beta is one of the leaders of the pack. It has already received orders for planes from customers including United Parcel Service, aka UPS.
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No one thinks where the "Rare Earths" are going to come from. China has the largest deposits.
Electric cars are dommed the amount of charging points will cost billions and the laying of millions of miles of copper cable and again Rare Earths is not possible.
Hydrogen is the only feasible solution. It can be stored in depleted oil fields, with no need for electric motors.
Where are they intending to send the old batteries?.
Mel. J.