How much do you trust electric vehicles?

[DubiousIntentions]

Do you trust them so much that you would fly on an electric passenger plane? I mean a real one. 😎😛 Or are electric planes for turkeys?

[abc3643]

An electric aircraft won't be long-distance like current airliners because the battery weight makes it unfeasible. Electric aircraft will be short-range, short-duration and likely mostly propeller-driven.

I don't believe they would be inherently more dangerous than current aircraft and may be safer. And I am speaking from experience because I am an avionics systems engineer who works with jet engines.

[DubiousIntentions]

Jet fuel likes to burn too though.

[abc3643]

Yes, jet fuel burns... and, in a way, that's a good thing.
That's because the airplane becomes lighter as fuel is burned.
In an electric aircraft (*), the weight doesn't change because the batteries are still there.

(*) There are solar-powered aircraft but these were demonstration aircraft and nothing commercial.
For instance, the Solar Challenger developed by Paul MacCready and the Solar Impulse which was the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the world WITHOUT STOPPING.

www.smithsonianmag.com/.../
"In the wee hours of July 26, 2016, Solar Impulse 2 landed in Abu Dhabi to eager crowds and cameras. After 14 months of travel and 550 hours in the air, the plane had accomplished what many had deemed impossible: traveling 25,000 miles around the world—over four continents, two oceans and three seas—without a drop of liquid fuel. The sun's vibrant rays supplied the craft's only power."


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_aircraft

[abc3643]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQb1ITj7pkQ

[DubiousIntentions]

That must have been hell holding it that long. 😆😅🤣

[Static_In_The_Attic]

Electric vehicles are a ticking time bomb waiting to happen & it’s like sending a shark to supervise children in a swimming pool, oh hell no.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

Thanks for the MHO’s!

[MysticDevice]

Electric vehicles have their uses. But they're not a green alternative. The batteries are toxic beyond belief and they're charged by a grid still running on coal, oil, and gas.

They do, however, have enormous amounts of torque and immediate power to the wheels cause there's no transmission to worry about.

[Astarlessnightsky]

with current technologies, an e-plane isn't possible.

The weight of the batteries is too high, while supplying too little energy.

We need better batteries or more energy efficient plane engines.

[SnowedIn]

Very little. If an electric plane were produced by Airbus and certified by the FAA and EASA, I'd fly on it. Boeing probably also.

[DubiousIntentions]

Just remember, the Boeing 737 Max were certified too, and then they started to crash.

[SnowedIn]

You are 1000000% right...

[FeelingGroovy]

Biden would shit himself if Air Force One was electric. lol

[DubiousIntentions]

He wouldn't get on. Probably because he fell down the steps. Must have been those Martinis. 😂🤣
https://youtu.be/rwjmyZUA2O8

[FeelingGroovy]

Those steps are tricky.

[Sevenpointfive]

maybe if i knew how to fly it i would, but i wouldn't trust someone else flying it

[NostalgiaSenpi]

Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.

[exitseven]

I would not keep one in my garage.

[DubiousIntentions]

You can if you have fire insurance to the max.

[exitseven]

no thanks. Having your house burn down is no fun. Even with insurance you still get hosed.

[DubiousIntentions]

I see what you did there.

[exitseven]

😄😄😄😄

[FunkyMonkee]

Not much more than regular cars.

[Alex8736]

i 100% don't trust them

[bradley142]

not one bit and wouldn't have one

[BCRanger10]

I don't.