5 hours on hoids electric plane would have avoided all that.
Well............................maybe not...............................
depending on how old the battery is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After all they LOSE A CONSERVATIVELY ESTIMATED minimum..............................
OF HALF THEIR RANGE AND CAPACITY......................................
once they are ten years old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A cynic might assume that an electric airplane with its aging batteries ............................
would swiftly develop technical issues that would make the Boeing Max 8 look relatively RELIABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In related news.................................
should we accept those manufacturer claims about long term service life and charge holding ability...............................
of Lithium batteries at face value??????????????????????
Or should we assume that Lithium battery service life estimates are about as reliable as EPA ESTIMATES..........................
of how far your car can go on a gallon of gas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I note with some interest that the Lithium battery in my laptop computer has lost 75 percent of its capacity in 4 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Considering the immense depreciation in value and lost range that an electric TOY car battery experiences.......................
one has to wonder about the TRUE SALES VALUE of a second hand electric TOY CAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Should we assume that an electric TOY car goes straight to the junk yard after ten years????????????
And lets recall that the AVERAGE GAS CAR ON OUR ROADS IS ELEVEN YEARS OLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or ask HARD QUESTIONS about the relative safety of an electric TOY plane versus one that is fossil fueled!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!