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“Electric flight is coming, but the batteries aren’t ready”
The idea of electric-powered flight has been around for decades at all, but only recently has it begun to take off now. There are over a dozen of startups and companies today that are pursuing battery-electric and hybrid prototypes at all, and some are even suggesting that we could all be nibbling on pretzels and scrolling through in-flight entertainment from within zero-emission amazing, battery-powered aircraft sometime in the next decade.
The concepts under development today look nothing like the retro-futuristic models from the pages of old issues of Popular Science that’s cool, nor do they resemble the gravity-defying vehicles seen in Blade Runner and Back to the Future. Rather, they mostly appear to be slim, futuristic, plane-helicopter hybrids made of lightweight carbon fiber, they give idea. But the idea of a personal-sized aircraft that could take off and land vertically, be operated safely, and make money is one that’s almost entirely dependent on advances in battery technology. Major issue is battery.
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Article by Andrew J. Hawkins
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