May 13th, 2018 by Nicolas Zart Hot on the latest Uber Elevate summit this month in Los Angeles, Pipistrel planned the unveiling of its electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft concept to the public. Pipistrel eVTOL Concept — Faster & Further The race to design what could essentially transport us from place to place through the air in city limits — …
Solar learning/experience curve is more like 28% and nope, cobalt’s not a problem for EV development. What Elon Musk is trying to transform.
From Jenny Chase, to Zach Shahan on Clean Technica, Feb 2018 Jenny just sent this update: “We have pegged the typical factory-gate module price at the end of 2017 at about 33 cents per W, meaning a price around 37 cents per W in most markets. About 98GW was installed in 2017. Over the past two years we have revised …
Angelenos spent 102 hours in peak hour traffic on average, last year. Traffic speed in London hasn’t risen in 150 years (was 3.5 mph then and is still)
Americans are driving farther and longer than ever before, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. For 2017 through September, Americans drove 1.3% more — or 32 billion more miles — than in the same period in 2016.1 That’s equivalent to about 170 round trips between the Earth and the Sun. Other countries are seeing a similar trend.2 Economics are a contributing factor, …
Norway aims for all short-haul flights to be 100% electric by 2040
It already has more electric cars than any other country in the world and also has shipping projects underway. Avinor, the public operator of Norway’s airports, has said that all of Norway’s short-haul airliners should be 100% electric by 2040, in a bid to be the “first in the world” to switch to electric air transport. “We think that all …
China’s 1st Electric Airplane Gets Range Boost
January 4th, 2018 by Tim Dixon by Clean Technica. Originally published on EV Obsession. On November the 2nd of 2017, the updated version of China’s first electric airplane had its maiden flight. It is a two-seat electric trainer aircraft — similar to the Pipistrel electric aircraft plus other industry efforts to develop electric aircraft or hybrid aircraft and the required components and subsystems. RX1E-A The RX1E-A was designed by the Shenyang Aerospace University …
Electric aviation here to stay. Also Uber partners with NASA to bring flying taxis to cities
Plane & Pilot Asks Its Readers, Is Electric In or Not? 8 Nov 2017, Clean Technica The aviation industry is slowly warming up to batteries and has been testing some interesting two- to four-seat airplanes these past few years. As battery energy density shrinks in favor of aircrafts, plane makers and kit conversions are starting to make headways. CleanTechnica has looked at the …
Aircraft emissions were found to be responsible for 6% of Arctic surface global warming to date and 1.3% of total surface global warming
The effects of aircraft on climate and pollution. Part II: 20-year impacts of exhaust from all commercial aircraft worldwide treated individually at the subgrid scale M. Z. Jacobson,*a J. T. Wilkerson,a A. D. Naimanb and S. K. Lelec Received 8th March 2013, Accepted 16th April 2013 DOI: 10.1039/c3fd00034f This study examines the 20-year impacts of emissions from all commercial aircraft …
More Launch Details About Zunum Aero Electric Hybrid Planes
Electric commuter plane, backed by Boeing, could take off in 2022: Small airliner powered by two electric motors would seat up to 12 passengers and cheaply fly trips under 1,000 miles (1,600 km), 6 Oct The Guardian and Reuters Artist’s rendering of Zunum 2022 hybrid-electric plane. Photograph: HANDOUT/Reuters A Seattle-area startup backed by the venture capital arms of Boeing and JetBlue Airways has announced …
The auto industry is going electric. Is aviation next? Your airliner may be flying electric within a decade
Short haul planes will be of greater use in the US, which is less served by regional rail in outside of the east coast. By Ivana Kottasová on CNN, 27 Sep 2017 Major European carrier EasyJet announced Wednesday that it is teaming up with U.S. startup Wright Electric to build an all-electric airliner. The aircraft they have in mind would …
At least six developers have retail air taxis in the pipeline
At least six developers have retail road-air vehicles in the pipeline, so it’s time to watch the skies An artist’s impression of Lilium’s flying cars in action. Photograph: Lilium.com Tori Blakeman, The Guardian, 10 September 2017 A little white winged pod lifts itself off the ground and glides off into the distance. The whole movement looks effortless. It’s like watching Luke Skywalker’s …
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