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sssh!! Quiet!! Listen to the First Electric Commercial Plane

submitted by nomino

1 decade 4 years 2 months 3 weeks ago

Yuneec offers the e430, a two-seat electro-plane that's been flying for the past six months, and will be ready to buy next year. If the company delivers on its promise, this electrically powered plane could change the world, costing just two dollars per hour to power its flight.

The first planes will cost $89,000. That's not too bad as far as private planes go, and who wouldn't want to fly in a low-noise, emissions-free e430? Nice. If its whisper-quiet engine is too loud for you (or if you've run out of power during its 1.5- to 3-hour flight time), the plane's 25:1 glide ratio will give you plenty of time to find a place to land

-Dvice

7 Comments

2pornot2p says...

That's one step removed from a glider. 25:1 glide ratio? That's amazing. And it's pretty quiet. I want one.

Nice . defently want one . only problems with this is that its pretty much a glider with a motor on it , meaning that it will be far more sensitive to weather conditions so its not that practical if you were planning on using it alot to get from a-b having said that there are a huge number of people that just fly for fun and would only go out on sunny days anny way so for them be pritty good , allso i emgin as a trainer craft could be pritty good.

why by a glider that requires a toe when you could just get one of these.

dag

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Very cool. I wonder what the range is? I think I would want the ballistic parachute option for the reasons @westy mentions. *promote

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