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Bye Aerospace’s eFlyer 800
Batteries + electric motor = cost savings?
The US aviation company Bye Aerospace has announced an eight-seat, fully electric twin-turbo-prop class aircraft: the eFlyer 800. It’s an eight-seat electric aircraft that could one day connect cities as an air taxi, or be used as a private plane. With a top speed of 600 kilometers per hour and a range of 900 kilometers, it should be the first fully electric aircraft that can offer “the performance and safety of a twin turboprop aircraft” even without CO2.
80% less operating costs
The eFlyer 800 is said to have only a fifth of the operating costs of conventional twin-engine turboprops. “The eFlyer 800 is the first all-electric propulsion aircraft that achieves the performance and safety of a twin turboprop aircraft with no CO2 and extremely low operating costs,” said George E. Bye, CEO of Bye Aerospace. “This kind of remarkable economy and performance is made possible by the electric propulsion system and advanced battery cell technology, which results in a significantly higher energy density.” Bye Aerospace has already sold more than 700 electric planes.
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http://blog.privatejetfinder.com/e-plane/
Have to take press releases with a bit of a grain of salt until they are in wide-scale production, but still, tantalizing. The costs if they pan out would make this a dominant design for that market.
