Who was elected in 2016? Case closed....
On Friday, December 28, 2018 09:42:14 PM EST, Alan Arrison
via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
Does anyone believe this nonsense?
Al
On 12/28/2018 6:26 PM, brucedp5 via EV wrote:
>
> https://www.timesofisrael.com/husband-and-wife-duo-sets-sights-on-flying-cars-over-san-francisco-next-year/
> Husband-and-wife duo sets sights on flying cars over San Francisco next year
> 25 December 2018 Federico Maccioni
>
> [image
> https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2018/12/28-1-e1545231057248.jpg
> Illustrative detail image of a vehicle from New Future Transportation.
> (Courtesy)
> ]
>
> New Future Transportation (NFT) is developing an electric car prototype with
> wings that aims to solve congestion and also be affordable at $50,000
>
> You start the car, pull out of the parking lot and hit the road. So far — a
> routine trip. Now, select flight mode. A pair of wings comes out of the
> sides of your vehicle and you take off for your destination.
>
> Like the cars in Ridley Scott’s masterpiece “Blade Runner” flying over a
> dystopian Los Angeles of 2019 [
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRXifdYkWvY
> ], the prototype of the vehicle being developed by Silicon Valley-based New
> Future Transportation [
> https://www.nxtft.com/
> ] (NFT) is theoretically set to sail the skies of the Bay Area in October
> next year.
>
> “Our mission is not transportation, but better quality of life,” said NFT
> chairman Guy Kaplinsky, an Israeli who, with his wife Maki Kaplinsky,
> designed the car.
>
> The two entrepreneurs live near Palo Alto, about 50 miles from San
> Francisco, because “houses are more beautiful and cheaper” than in the
> metropolis, they said. However, for people who need to get to work near the
> Golden Gate Bridge, it takes as much as two and a half hours by car, because
> of traffic congestion.
>
> [image] Maki Kaplinsky, a co-founder of New Future Transportation, NFT Inc.
> (Courtesy)
>
> According to a study by inrix.com, people in the San Francisco area spent on
> average 79 peak hours stuck in traffic in 2017, ranking the city the third
> out of 297 cities in the US and fifth out of 1,360 urban centers around the
> world in driving time spent in congestion.
>
> Kaplinsky said their competitively priced flying vehicle will allow users to
> save time and money.
>
> The flying car prototype will be a zero-emission multimodal vehicle — that
> can both drive and fly — the size of a sport utility vehicle (SUV), with two
> or four seats. It will take off and land vertically, and its wings will
> retractable, not fixed, the two entrepreneurs explained.
>
> “We made our design flexible” by creating a sort of hybrid system, CEO Maki
> Kaplinsky said.
>
> The base of the vehicle is electric, with a built-in extended range
> generator. Maki Kaplinsky said that with this combination the vehicle’s
> target flying range of 300 miles (480 kilometers) and driving range of 100
> miles (160 kilometers) will be “feasible and economical.”
>
> The aim is to use just batteries in the future, the entrepreneurs explained,
> without a generator. However, they said, batteries allowing for such ranges
> are yet to be developed and it is difficult to predict when this
> breakthrough will take place.
>
> The vehicle will be able to be either piloted or fly autonomously, said Maki
> Kaplinsky, adding that US regulations allow flight at a height of 300 to
> 5,000 feet, even if in practice it is able to fly above and below this
> range.
>
> User-friendliness is the main feature of NFT’s projected flying car, which
> makes it stand out among other kinds of flying vehicles, the husband and
> wife said.
>
> [image] Guy Kaplinsky, the co-founder and chairman of New Future
> Transportation, NFT. Inc (Courtesy)
>
> Maki Kaplinsky underlined that while drones and other electric aircraft
> require specific spots for parking and charging, NFT’s flying car can be
> parked in a garage or in the street. More importantly, she added, the
> vehicle’s “drive and fly” ability will allow users to reach their final
> destination using just one vehicle.
>
> Asked about technical issues that may arise with flying cars in an urban
> environment, the two entrepreneurs said that of course “people don’t like
> having cars flying above their heads,” but that the vehicles would be taking
> off from designated areas near shopping centers or highways. The two
> entrepreneurs believe that at low altitudes, the vehicles could fly over
> roads, open water or green areas so as to avoid the problem, while for
> higher altitudes there will be no issue because flying cars would be “just
> like today’s aircraft flying above us,” Maki Kaplinsky said.
>
> In terms of air traffic control management, Guy Kaplinsky said that each
> country has different regulations, and that in the US the Federal Aviation
> Administration would be the monitoring authority regulating traffic. With
> the introduction of flying cars, he said, the vehicles would be given a
> specific space slot according to their route.
>
> “Our mission and advantage is door-to-door [commuting],” said Maki
> Kaplinsky, adding that their car won’t be “a toy for rich guys” and will be
> “accessible for regular people,” with a target price of $50,000.
>
> NFT is aiming for the mass markets according to Guy Kaplinsky. “I’m giving
> you a flying car that will allow you to reach your destination… and that
> does not cost $2 million,” he said. We “want to be the bridge between
> automotive and aerospace technology.”
>
> Maki Kaplinsky said that they began thinking of the project about three
> years ago and when in July 2017 they sold their previous company — US-based
> IoT software startup IQP Corp. — to General Electric, they decided to fully
> embrace this challenge. At the beginning this year they opened an office in
> California and hired 15 — to become soon 35 — engineers in Israel.
>
> The first step in their vision will be to start flying cargo, and only then
> people, said Maki Kaplinsky.
>
> The company aims to launch the drive-and-fly cargo vehicle by the end of
> 2022 and a flying car for human transportation by 2025.
>
> The manufacturing of parts, such as motors and windows, will be carried out
> by partners, “most probably automotive Tier 1” companies, Maki Kaplinsky
> said.
>
> She added that in January 2019 the company will open an Israeli assembly
> line so as to produce full-size demonstrators to be tested not only in the
> US, but also in Israel.
>
> “We are investing $2 million by ourselves at this stage (seed founding), but
> we are contacting VCs in the Silicon Valley and Japan, aimed at rising $15
> million for the A series,” Maki Kaplinsky said.
> [© timesofisrael.com]
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> Elon Musk Says There May Be A Tesla Electric Airplane ... Someday
> Dec 17, 2018 Improvements In Battery Technology Making It More Feasible
> ... 400 watt-hours per kilogram is the tipping point for a practical
> electric airplane, and the batteries that currently power a Tesla car check
> in at 250Wh ...
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