Electrically powered vehicles are conquering our planet and it is a fact. Many cities like Singapore and Hamburg have vouched to replace their public transport fleets with emission-free vehicles by 2030 and many auto manufacturers have already established roadmaps and schedules for going all in electric. Boats and submarines are getting equipped with e-motors and even far reached world like Mars is being explored by Curiosity Rover thanks to an electric powertrain. But is the sky the limit for electric motors?
Apparently not, because up until today there is quite a number of already operational all-electric flying vessels that traverse the skies braking the stereotype that efficient and clean air travel is impossible on Earth. Today, we would like to share with you some knowledge about the first electric planes, so that when in 50 years all of the aircraft in the sky are electric, you will know how it all started. Enjoy your flight.
Electric aircraft that were featured here:
Solar Impulse 2: www.iata.org/pressroom/media-kit/Pages/solar-impulse.aspx
E-Fan 2.0 and Airbus E-Fan X: company.airbus.com/responsibility/airbus-e-fan-the-future-of-electric-aircraft.html
Facebook Aquila: facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/the-technology-behind-aquila/10153916136506634/
E-Fusion from Hungary’s Magnus Aircraft: magnusaircraft.com/efusion2
Siemens Extra 330LE: siemens.com/press/en/pressrelease/2017/corporate/pr2017040256coen.htm
e-Genius – the Institute of Aircraft Design at the University of Stuttgart: ifb.uni-stuttgart.de/egenius
Pipistrel Alpha Electro: pipistrel.si/plane/alpha-electro/overview
Sun Flyer from Aero Electric Aircraft Corporation: sunflyer.com/
Lilium Jet: www.lilium.com/mission/
FlyNano: www.flynano.com/faq.htm
Nasa The X-57: nasa.gov/image-feature/nasas-x-57-electric-research-plane/
Alice – Eviation Aircraft Company: eviation.co/alice/
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We do agree that many of these planes still have rather limited capabilities, but they are patiently waiting for the batteries density to improve and reach that 400 watt hour per kilogram sweet spot that will allow lengthier and more dynamic flights. At the same time in order to compensate for the lack of power storage hybrid versions of many of these aircraft were introduced, that operate way more efficiently than conventional aircraft, but at the same time stay greener and produce less noise pollution. But what are your thoughts? When will electric airplanes become widespread?
Conquering the planet? LOL. Technology is great and all but statements like this make technologists look like douchebags.
OTOH the current state of electric aircraft does look very promising.
12,16 would love to fly in this plane strange having a propeller on the tale off the plane maybe used for recharging the batteries ??
CO2 has nothing to do with climate…
Aquila 3 months flight time, way to go,
Just add money:???!(?)✌….
i need an elekric doo daah
We're closer than you think. Capitalism makes everything possible. With President Trump at the helm it makes it more possible. President Trump is an innovator he thinks out of the box. I don't mean to get political but it is what it is the truth. what I feel up to now.
CHANGE IN SOLAR MAIGNETI (SHEET)ELECTRIC MEGA POWER FLYING GET JET- MR.GOINKAA CHOUDHARY.ADHAARCARD VALUE OF SELF VOICE .
Ez a kutatási trend igen sokoldalú. Nekem először a vitorlázórepülésben elérhető kedvezőségek miatt fogott meg. Megtakarítható vontatógép, pilóta, úgyszintén a csörlésnél is….. Érdekes, hogy a mg.-i traktorok esetében is bíztatók a kísérletek. Nem gondoltam volna….
Department version CEO horizon calculate PM label ownership grip dance.
Trust me, aluminum batteries will solve the problems of weight compared to charge capacity.
a game-changing battery is ALWAYS 3-5 years away. I really think we're at the limit of what chemistry can do, except for some very minor, incremental improvements in cathode construction. I think what we're going to have to have is some OTHER storage medium that is not a battery. For example, some revolutionary solid state device like a super-duper capacitor.
မောင့်ကိုမ ြမင်နိုင်တာသိပါသည် ဒါပေမဲ့ဖခင် ြကီးမောင်ရဲ့သွေးတွေစီးနေချင်သူပါ အေ ြကာက်မရှိလို့အသေခံခဲ့ြပီးပါြပီ မောင်လေ မိသားစုနဲ့တစ်ရက်လေးရှိချင်လိုက်တာ ဒါြပီးရင်ဦးကျော်သူလာေ ခါ်လဲလိုက်လို့ရပါြပီ အခုလေမောင်ကသု့မိသားစုကိုပါဒုခပေးသူ့ြဖစ်နေတယ် မောင်ဘာလုပ်ရမလဲ မောင်သိပေမဲ့မသိသလိုနြေပီးချစ် ြပခဲ့တာအဲ့တစ်ရက်အတွက်ပါ ချစ်တဲ့သားဆမာင်
I would like to see a list of most popular artesian breads.
9:02 does that look like "3 blade propeller"?
I bet I could help to increase the battery mileage for the e plane Tesla technology would hell!
Pay attention to Aero-Tesla Aircraft in the near future. I feel you will be quite impressed.
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Interesting content. The commentator talks… like… a robot. MPG… Definitely will see some of these aircraft in flight training schools and locations where noise is an issue.
The "Laws of Physics" will ultimately tell the story – determine the performance and limitations…………..
The main problem with electric planes is that there are not enough places where one can plug in and get a recharge.
What about the Electra flyer c? You forgot to put on this list. It debut at the airshow in 2007.
What about Hy4?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLqRpw3Y2b0
E-fusion too heavy at 700Kg.
Electwic
The entire planet uses the Metric system with the exception of the US, Liberia and Myanmar
Why are all the number in pounds, feet and miles? 96% of the world uses metric.
why didnt you show the range for number 10?
embarassed at the companys choice to use a battery thats too small for the job?
Electric powered vehicles are a long way from “conquering” the planet.
Batteries can explode! What if this happened in the air?
Every time i visit a channel that has a lot of commercials like this one I simply use video blocker and dont have to see that channel again
Battery weight gee! Chances of fire WOW Few Great things > LESS MOVING PARTS! 2nd Less Noise 3rd No Carbon Monoxide > I like to see it happen world wide! MAKE THE WORLD HEALTHY! MUCH CLEANER AIR TO BREATH ! No carbons and oils all over every thing! PUT OUT! 12in x 12in WHITE PLATE, WHAT I'AM TALKING ABOUT! leave it out 1 or 2 months, it will be almost black! Why there so much lung cancer! Fossil Fuels ARE KILLING US! MUCH MUCH MORE WORST THAN SMOKING!!!!! Think about this next time your in a traffic jam! YOUR SLOWLY DYING ! When your chocking on it! DIESEL IS EVEN MORE WORST!
This looks just like a CT Ultralight. The one I saw had a 100 hp Rotax engine. When we get better batteries, the electric version will be nice. The Original, made in the Ukraine and assembled in Germany had a long wingspan with an 18:1 glide ratio. Can you tell me where to find the specs on that airplane?
How did you guys honestly leave out the Sunseeker and Sunseeker Duo. Also you don't mention Mark Beirles E-gull aircraft. You must not have looked very hard for electric aircraft as Eric Raymond has done more on a small budget than most of these large companies you mention. A lot of the stuff you put up aren't even successfully flying yet.
Thanks for the show,I loved it .
Great show, I really enjoyed it.
Please hava a look at gizio.it you may discover that electric propulsion in the aviataion environment is not a very new idea.
Its change nothin if is it not in serial production !
No one can buy a solar impuls for 1 million dollar . Why you dont show serial producs