There are much more exciting electric planes in development, we have a large thread for electric planes in general here: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/electric-planes.1307/
What happened to that flying company in Washington that was converting all it's airplanes to electric Are they flying passengers yet
An internet search will offer many more shorter yet interesting articles. For those that want official details: https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2019/07/15/ElectricAircraftWorkingGroupReport-June2019.pdf Sadly, I'm afraid our State government will only hinder and not help. Of course governments can't seem to resist an opportunity for regulations and fees.
The poor competition: Virgin Galactic reveals its Mach 3 aircraft design Fossil burning and not VTOL.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1294803765367726080 Elon seems to think his "idea" is great. What could the idea be related to: Possible Powertrain, motor, position of fans, inlets, rotation of exhaust for landing etc. High level concept - blended wing, shape of wing Launch method - ground based slingshot? Unlikely Battery related Autonomous although likely will be Seat configuration although could be standing seats? My first idea is that it will be a blended wing and the front fans will allow vertical landing without swivelling. However they will somehow do one or more of the following: Create lift in flight Reduce the sonic boom In addition to allowing transition to / from hover.
33 mins - 400 Wh/kg = 1000 km range, 480 Wh/kg = 2000 km Expecting propellor aircraft first. Elec jet in 5 years.
Best description of Elon's design towards the end of the Joe Rogan interview. Large gimballed fans Structural batteries Minimal fuselage 100,000 ft cruise
anyone have any ideas as to what we may expect a vtol 2-5 seater electric aircraft to cost? assuming of course that taxi services don't consume the entire production volume. I'm thinking the base components-electric motors, batteries, charge controllers etc are all basically the same as what you'd find in an ev albeit with more composites involved. If we're a few years away from a 100kwh car being able to be produced profitably for under 35k or so, could we see vtol electric aircraft around the 100k or less mark in 10, 15, 20 years?