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Mark IV wrote:

World's fastest electric plane. (so far )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNAPLxZtoPg
http://www.flightofthecentury.com/long-esa/

Motor-Trend, Car of the Year is Electric:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business...-motor-trends-
car-of-the-year/

400wh/kg is achieved:
http://enviasystems.com/technology/
(They already know how to produce
1500wh/kg. It is forthcoming.)

Thin-gap electric motors, Amazing:
http://www.thingap.com/products/index.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y10o9...=results_video

Other aviation electric motor specialties:
http://www.yuneec.com/PowerMotor_Tech_spec.html

Plane with built-in solar panels:
http://inhabitat.com/elektra-one-sol...own-photovolta
ic-charging-trailer/
(Actually, the entire surface...both top and
bottom should be covered in photovoltaics)

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Mark

"Everything will eventually be electric?" I don't think so! Unless
someone can come up with something like the sci-fi "zero point module,"
"dilithium crystals" or some other means of storing large amounts of
energy in small, lightweight packages, it won't.

Batteries, which must store the equivalent of fuel *and oxidizer* will
always be deficient here. For gasoline engines, the ratio is 15:1 by
weight of oxidizer/fuel.

It isn't the motors, but the energy source which fails.