Electric powered aircraft is not a particularly new idea. Airships and ultralights have been able to use electric motors powered by anything from battery packs to solar panels for decades, but due to the weight of batteries, electric power aircraft are slow. The Solar Impulse 2, a solar powered plane, flew around the world at an average 45 miles per hour. Now however Airbus and Siemens electric are looking at developing high performance electric planes. Not just quiet and environmentally friendly, but fast and powerful.
In the last few months, their Extra 330LE has set speed records of 211 mph and shown the ability to pull another plane (with passenges) into the air. As they note in the video, they are hoping to apply these developments to both personal and commercial aircraft in the near future. If these is true, we may not hear the jets that are flying over head Comments are closed.
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