Electric Air Travel Arrives... At 270 MPH

Why isn't this electric airplane blowing the doors off its competition the same way its ground-borne counterparts are? The answer is simple: weight. This company has a technology that could change that. Why isn't this electric airplane blowing the doors off its competition the same way its ground-borne counterparts are? The answer is simple: weight. This company has a technology that could change that. [Wealth Daily logo] Electric Air Travel Arrives... At 270 MPH [Alex Koyfman Photo] By [Alex Koyfman]( Written Jan. 23, 2020 Dear Reader, Back in July of last year, Israeli aerospace firm Eviation unveiled the world's first electrically powered executive transport/commuter aircraft for the mass market. Behold, the Alice: [electric plane] I'm not sure what the backstory is on the name for this little airplane, but if the idea was to allude to a lost, frightened child in a terrifying, unfamiliar world, they pretty much nailed this one. Eviation's first commercially available model, which is expected to hit in 2022, will be an unpressurized, short-range aircraft aimed at the air-taxi market. The following year, its executive model will carry nine passengers for up to 650 miles at 10,000 feet at a speed of 276 mph (440km/h). Not impressed? There's more. More than 7,600 pounds, or roughly 60% of the aircraft's empty weight, is battery. Three Tiny Stocks Are About to Deliver a Huge Windfall The end of U.S. pot prohibition is just around the corner. This is a rare opportunity for everyday Americans to quickly turn even a small $35,000 portfolio into more than $1 million. Three marijuana stocks are about to take off and deliver a huge windfall. [Click here now to find out what they are.]( Kind Of... Underwhelming So the question is: What the hell is going on here? Wasn't the Tesla one of the fastest cars on the road? Aren't there trains out there that can go 300 miles per hour? Why is this electric airplane barely breaking 270 mph while every commercial jet airliner out there can easily go twice as fast and up to eight times as far? The answer is simple: weight. While electric motors are superior, pound for pound, in torque and horsepower to piston engines like the kind that power 98% of the cars out there, they still cannot compare to jet engines in the power-to-weight category. Consider this: If you hook the Pratt & Whitney F119, which powers the F-22 Raptor, up to a shaft to drive a propeller or rotor, you would produce in the neighborhood of 52,000 horsepower. The Raptor, which can cruise at supersonic speed and top out at 1,500 mph, carries two of these. The F119 weighs about two tons, meaning that its power-to-weight ratio is roughly 10 times that of a modern Ferrari. Still the One to Beat But let's look at something smaller: the General Electric T700, which powers the U.S. Army's UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. The Black Hawk carries two of these engines, each producing 3,000 horsepower at the shaft. They weigh just 500 pounds. Now, imagine how big of a piston engine or electric motor you would need to crank out over 52,000 horsepower? Or even 3,000? How many pounds of batteries would you need to produce that kind of power for hours and hours on end? This is a primitive comparison, of course, but it illustrates quite well why the Alice is so slow — and why, based on these initial examples, it will not be able to compete with turbofan and turboprop technology. Not in terms of speed and range. Not yet. "Negative Emissions" Carbon Capture is a Capitalists Dream Come True Governments are doing everything they can to reduce carbon emissions. That might have spelled big trouble for the companies that make our cars and electrify our homes were it not for an incredible bit of technology I’ve just uncovered. Allow me to ask you one simple question: If you could virtually eliminate all the greenhouse gases humans currently produce while generating the SAME amount of electricity to light our homes, would you do it? Of course, you would. That’s exactly the "miracle" one tiny company based in western Connecticut has pulled off. But it’s no fantasy. The results are real, which is why this company’s backlog has quietly piled up and is closing in on $2 billion. Soon word will get out, and it will be too late to get in before Wall Street piles in. Even the biggest oil company of them all, ExxonMobil, has beaten a path to this company’s door. [Click here to learn all that I’ve uncovered about this once-in-a-decade opportunity.]( The Missing Pieces Electric motors have two major advantages right now: ease of maintenance, and, for those who care, a much smaller carbon footprint, even when considering the source of the electricity that charges those batteries. What Alice needs is highly improved batteries and, more importantly, a motor that is more energy-efficient, more reliable, and capable of producing more power. Given those two elements, the aviation industry will be transformed. It's not a matter of if at this point, or even a matter of when. It's how soon. Eviation's Alice is a pioneer, but she's hardly alone. Boeing recently invested in Seattle-based startup Zunum Aero, whose initial concept aircraft will have a 12-passenger capacity. [electric plane] Future concepts will be bigger, faster, with longer ranges, and, of course, more reliable. For those future plans to come to fruition, though, the solution will have to come through the same two elements: improved batteries and motors. The race is already on, and there are tons of competitors and theories out there, but [this is one company that stands apart](. What it's done to improve upon the electric motor is an engineering first and considered by many to be the only true change in classic motor design since Faraday's first prototypes almost 200 years ago. The company is now working toward doing the same thing with batteries. [Click here to learn more](. Fortune favors the bold, [alex koyfman Signature] Alex Koyfman [[follow basic]@AlexKoyfman on Twitter]( Coming to us from an already impressive career as an independent trader and private investor, Alex's specialty is in the often misunderstood but highly profitable development-stage microcap sector. Focusing on young, aggressive, innovative biotech and technology firms from the U.S. and Canada, Alex has built a track record most Wall Street hedge funders would envy. Alex contributes his thoughts and insights regularly to [Wealth Daily](. To learn more about Alex, [click here](. Enjoy reading this article? [Click here]( to like it and receive similar articles to read! 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