https://jalopnik.com/electric-aviation-has-taken-flight-1840374924 Electric Aviation Has Taken Flight December 11, 2019 Bradley Brownell,ht2 Bret &Nosrat Whipple
[images / Harbour Air Seaplanes https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1600/dmz37z6yeoapp4e0zqih.jpg https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1600/y2vgxqwd4qc55txhq6ty.jpg https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1600/xwdiz6jd9shgynccfzyb.jpg https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1600/jmmetr4cgro11pjwfacv.jpg https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1600/x4ri8p8o5fmvvzufhpn2.jpg ] Air travel is a massive source of carbon emissions, making up 2.5% of all emissions on earth. That’s not nearly as much as automobiles or power production, but it is hardly an insignificant source. If we’re working on reducing emissions from the other two, we should also be working to find solutions for the third. Thanks to Harbour Air Seaplanes in Canada and MagniX electric motors out of Australia, the first major hurdle on the path toward electrified air travel has been cleared. On Tuesday the first fully-electric commercial flight took off. Granted, it was a small 6-passenger sea plane, but I’m still mighty impressed. You have to learn how to walk before you can run, and this looks like an incredibly promising baby step. The DHC-2 de Havilland Beaver plane was fitted with a 750-horsepower electric motor built by MagniX. With a big rack of lithium batteries aboard the plane has an in-flight range of about 100 miles. “The [flight] range now is not where we’d love it to be, but it’s enough to start the revolution,” MagniX chief executive Roei Ganzarski told AFP. Getting big commercial jets to run on full EV power seems a bit far fetched with current battery technology, but even this is a start. Getting these little prop planes away from a reliance on fuel, is the first rung of the ladder. And to their credit, Harbour Air has committed to a fully electric fleet of float planes by 2022. As first efforts go, this seems a hell of a lot more successful than Wilbur and Orville’s first flight. I could see this kind of plane taking off (literally) in this exact form factor as replacement for the short-bop bush planes of Australia and harbor planes in Canada and the Pacific Northwest. For regular short flights to remote locations, this electric propulsion plane could reduce a small flight company’s recurring fuel and repair bills. Maybe, in the not-so-distant future we could see the single prop Pipers and private jets adopt this kind of technology. Or maybe the next step for a plane like that is a hybrid. Surely it takes far more energy to get a plane airborne than it does to keep it aloft. Kick on the jet engine for take off, then switch to EV power once you reach cruising altitude. I’m not an engineer, but this makes all kinds of sense to me. How much better would a puddle jumper plane be if you didn’t have to hear the engines for a couple hours? I’m chalking this one up as a major win for electric propulsion and aviation. I hope to ride in an electric plane in my lifetime. Sounds like a great time, and I hate planes. [© jalopnik.com] ... http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=413529&query=MagniX&sort=date search evdl on MagniX + (J.Clarkson feeling threatened &usurped> disses Thunberg) https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a30198250/electric-car-activist-thunberg-controversial/ Activist Greta Thunberg Wins Accolades, Insults for Promoting EVs DEC 11, 2019 Thunberg, 16, gets Time Person of the Year honors, as well as scorn from car-show host Jeremy Clarkson ... 'I think her dream is unrealistic' ... ... http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=413529&query=Clarkson&sort=date search evdl on Clarkson For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ {brucedp.neocities.org} -- Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
