Specs on plane, capacities, limitations, etc at eviation.com
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Very cool! 200 mile ‘useful range’ is targeted, and that should be enough for the plane to be useful for regional travel. I.e. from my city it would take me to any of the bigger surrounding regional cities that I’d normally connect to.
Probable 2027 commercialization, the article says, as they wait for improvements in batteries.
Not sure what useful range means, exactly. But FAA rules- require a certain amount of additional hours of fuel be carries for different lengths of flight, weather conditions, international, aircraft type, etc. So I would hope this is all included
Mike
Italy’s Tecnam said it will stop making the P-volt aircraft since it cannot now hit a target of delivering the plane by 2026.
The speed at which the batteries would lose charge would erode the nine-passenger craft’s value, ruining its commercial prospects, it added.
The company will now wait for battery capacity and weight improvements which will allow the propeller-driven plane to be developed successfully at a later date.
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