Yet another new electric plane.....

It's a cartoon.

 

Fully autonomous V tail electric fan......should be able to auger in faster than you can say "Bonanza"!

 

Whats the dorsal inlet for? Is their a petro fueled APU generating electricity for the fan engines

 

Nothing wrong with a V tail...

More info... Backed by Boeing, Honeywell, others.

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

 

the PC48 is the only all electric plane to buy

 

19 passengers??? sounds like they want to go after the Beech 1900 and the EAS market. I really don't see this as a game changer. With most of the major airlines looking to get rid of there EMB-120 ERJ-145 Dash-8 and CRJ-200's due to a lack of pilots with 1500 hours to fly them. I can't see how it could be cost effective unless they are able to fly them automatically. Even then I can't imagine many people wanting to fly them knowing that there is nobody up front to control the thing.

 

Ha!

 

Will be interesting to see who actually produces a product that works first...
"OSLO (AFP) -

All of Norway's short-haul airliners should be entirely electric by 2040, the country's airport operator said on Wednesday, cementing the Nordic nation's role as a pioneer in the field of electric transport.

Avinor, the public operator of Norwegian airports, "aims to be the first in the world" to make the switch to electric air transport, chief executive Dag Falk-Petersen told AFP.

"We think that all flights lasting up to 1.5 hours can be flown by aircraft that are entirely electric," he said, noting that would cover all domestic flights and those to neighbouring Scandinavian capitals.


In the near future, Avinor plans to launch a tender offer to test a commercial route flown with a small electric plane with 19 seats, starting in 2025.

Norway, the largest oil and gas producer in Western Europe, is paradoxically a leader in the field of electric transport.

It has more electric cars on the road in terms of market share than any other country in the world -- electric and hybrid vehicles represented more than half of new car registrations in 2017 -- and also has several projects underway for electric vessels.

"When we will have reached our goal, air travel will no longer be a problem for the climate, it will be a solution," Falk-Petersen said.

According to official statistics, air transport accounts for 2.4 percent of Norwegian greenhouse gas emissions for domestic traffic, and more than double that when international routes are included.

Electric air travel will also at least halve noise levels and the operating cost of aircraft, Falk-Petersen said.

But before reaching that point, Avinor said it would need to use intermediary technologies, such as biofuels and hybrid fuel-electric solutions.

Boeing and Airbus are currently exploring the viability of electric aircraft.

After abandoning a project for 100-percent electric planes last year, Airbus decided to refocus its efforts on developing a hybrid model, inking a partnership with British engine maker Rolls Royce and German industrial group Siemens. The first flight is planned for 2020.

Zunum Aero, a start-up partly financed by US aeronautics group Boeing, meanwhile plans to bring a hybrid plane to the market by 2022