Airbus shows E-Fan, its electric plane due in 2017

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FARNBOROUGH, England -- Although battery weight may keep electric planes from becoming mainstream in the near future, Airbus believes its E-Fan 2.0 will find a real market: pilot training.

It hopes to begin selling the E-Fan 2.0 in late 2017 for pilot training. That's only one fraction of the plane market. A later planned E-Fan 4.0 with space for four passengers, however, will be aimed at the general-aviation market.

 

 

 

 

uhhhh..... not yet, lets wait for battery technology to happen with cars before I trust it with something that can fly

[qwertywarrior]

i wonder if these electric plains weight less or cheaper to make than ones that use fuel

[UnknownEngineer]

I would want one, I wonder how cheap an electric plane is as opposed to a normal one. Also I think the battery technology is already here, it just isn't cool in cars.

[Unhelpful]

uhhhh..... not yet, lets wait for battery technology to happen with cars before I trust it with something that can fly

It's not that it hasn't happened with cars yet due to the technology not being there... The automotive and oil industries have bashed it into the ground.

[AnnoyedShelf]

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uhhhh..... not yet, lets wait for battery technology to happen with cars before I trust it with something that can fly

OH MY GOD YES! This is the best piece of news today! if you hadn't figured it out yet, I'm obsessed with airplanes...

[Warcony]

Bad idea. Battery tech isn't developed enough for this to be feasible.

[Xorbot]

 

uhhhh..... not yet, lets wait for battery technology to happen with cars before I trust it with something that can fly

 

 

Bad idea. Battery tech isn't developed enough for this to be feasible.

 

I know exactly what you mean.  Because current airplane fuel never runs out, and planes can stay in the sky forever which is not possible when using electricity as a fuel instead.

[Prokart2000]

its electric  :mellow:

[Warcony]

I know exactly what you mean.  Because current airplane fuel never runs out, and planes can stay in the sky forever which is not possible when using electricity as a fuel instead.

 

Well considering all the issues Boeing has had with the use of batteries on their newest plane and what I have studied on it, I don't think it would be feasible (possible, yes).  I am not saying this because one has more range over the other, just that current battery technology has proved to be difficult to harness large scale not even considering that the environment planes are exposed to is very harsh.

 

Edit for clarification: I am not talking about some dinky little one person plane, I am talking more large scale i.e. a plane that has real use (passenger, cargo, fire fighting etc.)

[LapX]

These prototypes are always beatiful

[Bsmith]

i wonder if these electric plains weight less or cheaper to make than ones that use fuel

 

in time yes, they are cheaper since they are able to have dynamo's on board wich are able to create electricity wich allows them to fly longer on shorter recharge times, so it's cheaper on fuel economics and in time too i guess since well, pure/clean energy vs oil.