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Home Electric Vehicles Archive by category "EV Airplanes"

Category Archives: EV Airplanes

Solar Impulse makes history as the first around-the-world solar-electric airplane flight, 40,000+ km with no fuel

Bertrand Piccard today finished the first around-the-world flight with a solar-electric airplane, the Solar Impulse 2 (a.k.a. HB-SIB).  That’s over 40,000 kilometers flown, leaving Abu Dhabi in March 2015 and returning to their starting point today, July 25, 2016.  This flight, as did several other Solar Impulse flights, demonstrated this…

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Bertrand Piccard set to complete Solar Impulse’s around-the-world solar powered airplane flight

History is being made this weekend as Bertrand Piccard is piloting the Solar Impulse solar-powered airplane from Cairo to Abu Dhabi.  In March 2015 the Solar Impulse set out from Abu Dhabi, and the team has been flying the airplane (in legs) around the world since.  It was to have…

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After flying to 48 hours to Cairo, the Solar Impulse airplane is ready to complete its round-the-world trip

In March 2015, the Solar Impulse took off from Abu Dhabi on a journey to fly around the world while using zero fuel.  As a solar powered electric airplane, the Solar Impulse flies in the face of conventional wisdom, in that it flies long distances without burning liquid fuel.  It…

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Solar Impulse finishes North American leg of fuel-less round-the-world flight

On Friday, the Solar Impulse 2 solar-electric airplane landed at JFK Airport in New York, completing the North America leg of its around-the-world journey. The Solar Impulse project, conceived by adventurer Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg, is seeking to fly around the world while consuming zero fuel. This “zero fuel…

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Solar Impulse 2 resumes around-the-world solar powered fuel-less flight, showing us the way to live

Every day the trees wake up, watch the sunrise, and spread their leaves to capture the energy needed to live another day while storing excess energy away so the tree makes it through the winter.  Trees, and other plants, have done this for millions of years.  It is a natural…

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SolarShip, the Solar-Powered, Helium-Filled Cargo Plane That Floats

September 25, 2015 September 25, 2015

The SolarShip is a helium-filled airplane that resembles a balloon, and is powered by electrically driven propellers whose power is collected from the Sun. This sort of aircraft doesn’t fit into any existing category, it is its own category. A picture may help: Essentially it’s a blimp/balloon, filled with helium,…

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Google-connected company, Zee.Aero, designing electric flying cars

September 25, 2015 September 25, 2015

A patent for a Personal Aircraft was discovered, to have been applied for from Zee.Aero (website http://zee.aero/). (all patents from Zee.Aero) A safe, quiet, easy to control, efficient, and compact aircraft configuration is enabled through the combination of multiple vertical lift rotors, tandem wings, and forward thrust propellers. The vertical…

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Solar Impulse electric airplane sets off on impossible flight to change the worlds energy consumption

This morning I witnessed one of those rare events where a smart man announces to the worlds press that the impossible is possible, and then sets off on an adventure to prove it.  Unfortunately I think the significance is going to be lost on most people.  What I’m talking about…

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Electric airplanes, ships, cars, trucks and more discussed in Silicon Valley this week

At the Electric Vehicles, Land, Sea and Air conference this week in Silicon Valley, researchers and engineers met to discuss a wide range of electric vehicle applications and technologies. Electric vehicles are more than just the electrified cars we most frequently cover. This week in Silicon Valley, IdTechEx held the…

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