Flying car ? or a drone with passenger seats ?

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This is being promoted as an Electric flying car.

 

But you cant steer it, so to me its a drone with seats ! What do you think ?

 

 

[KhunBENQ]

After the madness of battery powered cars now the complete utter nonsense of battery powered aircraft.

Nice toy, maybe for a billionaire estate.

Flying from his tennis court to the veranda for dinner.

 

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Jet A, the standard kerosene fuel for commercial and military aircraft, has an energy density of 12,000 watt-hours per kilogram. The most advanced aviation batteries such as those powering small drones, have an energy density of 500 watt-hours per kilogram. Even after accounting for the fact that about two-thirds of jet fuel is lost as heat, fossil fuel still is six to eight times more energy dense than the most advanced batteries currently available.

And now look at a typical Bangkok traffic nightmare and imagine that only 20% of those would try to use airspace.

 

Battery powered: exporting pollution to battery production and horrendous multi-fold demand for natural resources (mining). No way this is the future of mobility.

 

https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/features/the-buzz-over-batteries/

 

Just an arbitrary source for the numbers. I have read much worse like 1 kg kerosene equiv to 70 kg of Lithium battery.

Edited October 13, 2022 by KhunBENQ