The whole concept of flying with nothing more than electric power seems somehow anathema to aviation. It wasn't so many years ago when people used to say the same thing about cars. Up until a few years back, it was almost incomprehensible that electric power could ever be made reliable and efficient enough to power an automobile more than a few miles. That was before the advent of such innovative technology as the Toyota Prius and Elon Musk's remarkable Tesla. The Tesla was one of the first to employ electric power in a luxury car, using either a 60 kWh or 85 kWh battery. Now, we're looking at the possibility of electric airplanes, and that may be arriving just in time to help solve the coming pilot shortage.
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