Battery Vehicle Society

Especially for Ed:

http://www.electraflyer.com/electraflyerc.php




An all electric aeroplane, the ElectraFlyer-C, available to buy from:

http://www.electraflyer.com

It has been flying at shows for the last couple of years...

Mary.

Crikey, that's actually pretty impressive. The prices for the trike mean you could have a functional electric aeroplane for around 12 grand if you buy a second hand trike over here and install the gubbins from the states.
Projected running costs in comparison to IC powered aeroplanes are good too - avgas is not cheap. Sound advantages too - I wonder what the prop noise is like? The article for the trike mentions slow revving prop so that (coupled with good prop design one hopes) should mean a fairly quiet aeroplane.

I nave to say I would prefer an Electraflyer C - I am happier with a 3 axis design, but that would I imagine cost more.
For a while at least. Frankly by the time I am likely ever to be able to afford one it'll be because prices have fallen anyway (ie in about 30 years and I am nearly dead:-) )

Oh yes hat's lovely

Stuart Quinn-Harvie wrote:Crikey, that's actually pretty impressive. The prices for the trike mean you could have a functional electric aeroplane for around 12 grand if you buy a second hand trike over here and install the gubbins from the states.

Plus about £60,000 to £100,000 to get the microlight through BCAR Section S compliance demonstration and flight test, assuming that it doesn't need too much modification work to meet the requirements. You may well have to build two, one to test to ultimate load for compliance demonstration and one to build as a machine to fly.

Jeremy

(who's put more than one microlight and one light aircraft through approval and still bears the scars...................)

PS: The Moni motorglider struggles to meet the airworthiness requirements here in standard form, so will almost certainly not comply at the much heavier MTOW for this electric version. I've worked on the approval of that, too. (sorry for the doom and gloom!)

Jeremy wrote:

Stuart Quinn-Harvie wrote:Crikey, that's actually pretty impressive. The prices for the trike mean you could have a functional electric aeroplane for around 12 grand if you buy a second hand trike over here and install the gubbins from the states.

Plus about £60,000 to £100,000 to get the microlight through BCAR Section S compliance demonstration and flight test, assuming that it doesn't need too much modification work to meet the requirements. You may well have to build two, one to test to ultimate load for compliance demonstration and one to build as a machine to fly.

Jeremy

(who's put more than one microlight and one light aircraft through approval and still bears the scars...................)

PS: The Moni motorglider struggles to meet the airworthiness requirements here in standard form, so will almost certainly not comply at the much heavier MTOW for this electric version. I've worked on the approval of that, too. (sorry for the doom and gloom!)

Not at all Jeremy

Again another hugely expensive toy for the rich and famous and totally pointless for us mere mortals who are unlikely to have that sort of spare cash floating about even in 5yrs of hard saving

While we're in "doom and gloom real people havent got that sort of money" mode lets not forget the Tesla

I'm not likely to find cheap good 2nd hand EV's for under £5k for some years to come me thinks

Oh the doom and gloom of it all thank the lord for the Berlingo



ChrisB