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easyJet Short-Haul Electric Jets
Startup Wright Electric has joined forces with easyJet to try to build an electric plane for short-haul flights.
(EasyJet to fly electric jets on short-haul routs)
“A collaboration with US company Wright Electric will support the goal for short-haul flights to be operated by all-electric planes. Wright Electric has set itself the challenge of building an all-electric commercial passenger jet capable of flying passengers across easyJet’s UK and European network within a decade.”Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who revealed having his own design for a VTOL electric plane, says that such a system becomes possible once battery energy density reaches over 400 Wh/kg, while his Tesla vehicles are believed to be currently powered by battery cells with ~250 Wh/kg.
I'm pretty sure that science fiction great John W. Campbell was the first person to tell many Americans to start dreaming about electric aircraft, in his case, a solar-powered plane. That's from his 1930 story The Black Star Passes.
Will we see electric jets in our lifetime? They're working on it!
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- Solar-Powered Aircraft In Fact and Fiction
- Solar Impulse HB-SIA Solar-Powered Plane Tested
- Electric Jet Planes With Superconducting Generators
- Solar Impulse Solar-Powered PlaneFlies!
- Solar Impulse Completes Night Flight
- VoltAir Electric Aircraft Concept
- Transcontinental Flight By Solar-Powered Plane
- Airbus E-Fan All-Electric Plane Now Ready
- Caihong Solar-Powered Drone 'Atmospheric Satellite'
Via Electrek.
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