Dale Vince plots course for an electric airline

[Stan]

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... ic-airline

[Mr Gus]

From electric highways tp electric runways..

Hope is service & repair schedule for planes doesn't suck like the charger points or we're all doomed!

Seriously though, brave step by DV towards BEA.

[nowty]

If it does go all green hydrogen electric, I fancy a hop on it to the Edinburgh fringe.

[Paul_F]

There's an awful lot of vapourware being relied on here - 70 seater hydrogen fuelled aircraft don't yet exist (nor the infrastructure to support them), and he's talking about them being in service in 2025-6. The investment he's also talking about making (£1m) is also laughably small compared to the challenge he's talking on.

For comparison at work I'm peripherally involved in flying a prototype hybrid 9 seat aircraft. The budget for that is around 50x higher than what Vince is talking about, for what is frankly a much simpler and cheaper task.

[Mr Gus]

Paul is right, I read the piece yesterday & forgot the piffling million investment.

So really this is a tiny, way down the ladder of investors amount in a prototype tech that does not yet exist, utilising current tech which does, for which a million quid is what? 3% of the cost of a new sleazyjet size small-er commercial jet?

Or about 10% of a set up second hand.

https://simpleflying.com/boeing-737-800-value-2021/

[dan_b]

Once you read the detail, it seems to be a complete nonsense doesn't it. Bit like Vince's "grass mills to create gas" plan.