Electric vehicles are bad

[Zundfolge1432]

As if we didn’t have enough to worry about this kind of nutty business pops up. What’s wrong with these people ? This won’t work😧 https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43838/spaces...ome-images

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There is A LOT of misinformation posted here, on basically every topic that comes up, electric vehicles and otherwise.

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[Letterman7]

As a test bed, it's pretty slick. Add in solar panels on the wings for in-flight recharging and it might be a viable option.

[Bonesberg55]

It's amazing to me that electric vehicles have been around since the early 1900s and we're only recently considering them a viable option. As a nation, we went from not even having put a man in space to putting men on the moon in just over 8 years. Why did we drag our feet on this?

[mukluk]

Hope the poor bastards don't try flying out of a major hub during any high volume times. Can you imagine the frustration of having to head back to the gate for another recharge because it took too much battery power during the taxi out and subsequent wait in line to take off (you're currently number 38 in line, says the tower).

I'm curious what they're using for flight control actuators, as well as what kind of setup it has for pressurization and heating/cooling. What kind of redundancy is there in the event of electrical bus or battery failure? Does everything run off the battery packs or do the motors have IDGs attached, possibly even ram air turbines for power generation inflight?
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[djkeev]

[NUTSFORBUSES]

Solar panels on the body (wings) would be far too cold at 30K . Maybe some day when they invent clear aluminum.
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[Bonesberg55]

As far as battery technology, I rest my case.

[daven]

"It's amazing to me that electric vehicles have been around since the early 1900s and we're only recently considering them a viable option. As a nation, we went from not even having put a man in space to putting men on the moon in just over 8 years. Why did we drag our feet on this?
The term "petro-dollars" comes to mind.

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[gt1953]

How much petrol does it take to make a electric car battery. Well you have to mine the ore, transport it, process it, etc. The what do you do with it when the battery is expired. How much cost is it to install a charging station, well you generally have to dig the ground (petrol machine) pour concrete (petrol machine) and so forth and so on.
Personally we like to cover about 600 imiles a day...cannot do that with a battery sorry the charging times would make the arrival late in the evening.
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[pop.pop1955]

Imagine stuck in that snowstorm in Virginia in an electric vehicle, charge runs out they can't bring a charging station. You're being towed, to say nothing of blocking the road until s tow truck comes
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