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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I bet they had to cut the video that often due to very short battery life.

The flight technology is trivial, no joke, that's a task every competent aerospace engineer can solve. But as long as batteries don't get much, much denser energywise (by multitudes) those VTOL capabilities will suck every battery dry within a few (very few) minutes. Proof: This thing would already be on the market if it worked on combustion engines or turbines and simply be a helicopter.

Physics is the endgame. They can't change that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

True. I used to follow an ultralight EV VTOL startup that is still trying to get buyers on a 20 mile range, and that's with an 8 kWh battery. To me that's not a lot of sky for a six figure price tag.