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The Electric Airplane Is Coming

Posted by Unknown on from the but-what-about-flying-electric-cars dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The electric car is so yesterday; electric airplanes are coming. A battery electric-powered ultralight aircraft has been flying for the last year. A series-hybrid motor glider and a concept for an all-electric, 50-seat passenger plane were introduced at the Paris Air Show."

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  1. Storage capacitor manhattan project by xtal · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We need this more than any other technology right now, and it's a solvable problem.

    Want something to stimulate the economy? That'd do it.

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    ..don't panic