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Barnaby will save them or Who ever invents or commercializes the next generation of Battery technology will be the next Bill Gates, rich beyond their wildest dreams.

A few brave souls powering on with electric flight [/url]https://aeromarine-lsa.com/electrolite-update/?fbclid=IwAR0r7gDXIZO1xUwISBDPaPmqaSeVa-SBnLfPYkabkru53BS4anXvlJYMZ9Q

you can imagine the cheers of joy at Wellcamp

from memory, Mark Field didn't introduce a single EV, he pushed for turbo everything in Ford's range.

CANNABIS company Asterion has given Wagners the option to settle a portion of some invoices with shares. This discussion comes as Wellcamp, an affiliate of the Wagners Properties, waits for the green light in the construction and development of Asterion's Toowoomba medicinal cannabis project, which will be the largest of its kind in Australia. Asterion has offered to pay parts of Wellcamp invoices connected to goods and services for the project with common shares in the capital of of the company. "As Wagners and Wellcamp are expected to play an important role in the construction and development of the Toowoomba Project, we are pleased to be offering Wellcamp this equity participation option which is intended to provide Asterion with additional equity financing and offer Wellcamp the opportunity to share in the success of Asterion going-forward," Asterion CEO Stephen Van Deventer said. In accordance to the Equity Participation Agreement, Wellcamp can chose to receive Asterion shares as payment for up to 10 per cent of any approved invoice, which can be increased to 100 per cent with prior approval from Asterion. Asterion said the shares would have a deemed issuance price equal to the then current financing price of Asterion, or, if it is not conducting a financing, at the last financing price. Asterion lodged its development application with Toowoomba Regional Council in May and is awaiting approval.

did they poach any coworkers?

Ford are rolling our hybrids to replace V8s

The Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD, backed by Warren Buffett, is to offer its all-electric trucks to the Australian market in a partnership with Macquarie Group, and expects they will achieve competitive lifetime costs with those of the current fleet of diesel trucks. In one of the most significant developments in the Australian EV market, two models of BYD electric trucks will be offered to the Australian market; the T5 and T6 models. Each of the models has a range of 300km on a single charge, and will be targeted towards the small to medium logistics companies in Australia. The trucks will provide a comparable loading capacity to those of diesel trucks, and Adelaide firm Nexport, which will be the local distributor, sees very little, if any impact on the day-to-day operations of existing truck operators following a shift to the electric trucks. In fact, BYD hopes to help generate significant reductions in ongoing operating costs for businesses. While the trucks will have a higher upfront costs, the fuel savings are expected to be considerable. Nexport estimates that operators could achieve “like-for-like” savings of up to 40%, saving $6,000-$10,000 annually for trucks driving 50,000km a year. By shifting to a fleet of all-electric vehicles, truck operators will have an opportunity to both reduce their ongoing running costs and to significantly reduce their environmental footprint, running vehicles with zero tailpipe emissions. All-electric trucks will be offered with financing packages provided through Macquarie Group’s Corporate and Asset Finance. Purchasers will be able to acquire trucks through a leasing model, allowing trucking companies to offset the costs of the electric trucks with the significant savings achieved through avoided fuel costs. The financing model helps to address the upfront cost barrier for electric trucks, which are more expensive upfront than their diesel equivalents, but provide significant reductions in ongoing costs. The attractiveness for truck operators will be the opportunity to use fuel savings to offset the cost of the trucks and provide long-term savings. “We are pleased to be working with BYD and Nexport to support the roll-out of BYD’s electric commercial vehicle line in Australia and New Zealand,” Macquarie Corporate and Asset finance’s Scott Simpson said. “This is an exciting opportunity to work with a uniquely experienced team to deliver cost-effective and proven low-emission vehicle solutions to commercial vehicle operators in the region. “We see increasing interest in fleet and rental solutions in a range of industries and markets where demand for LEV’s is growing, and look forward to working with BYD to explore this, not only in electric trucks, but also other significant EV markets, such as airports and logistics.” The buses will be the first factory-built buses offered into the Australian market, and will be sold under the BYD brand. Under the deal, Nexport will be responsible for local sales of the BYD trucks, and provide support for trucks sold across Australia and New Zealand. Nexport recently announced that they would to offer electric passenger vehicles in the Australian market under the Evant brand and based on BYD models in a joint venture with Fusion Capital. Evant has plans to ramp up Australian-based manufacturing of the electric vehicles with the eventual aim of the full manufacture and assembly of vehicles in Australia. Nexport hopes to extend its electric vehicle offerings to medium and large size trucks by early 2020, and to include rubbish collection and sea- and air-port suitable trucks in the near future. alt=BYD%20Nexport%20MOU%20signinghttps://reneweconomy.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/BYD-Nexport-MOU-signing.jpg[/img]BYD, Nexport and Macquarie Corporate and Asset Finance representatives signing the deal at BYD’s Shenzhen headquarters. Credit: Supplied BYD has supplied small orders of buses to various Australian governments, including two Cambridge branded all-electric buses to the ACT Government in 2017. BYD has emerged as a major contender in the emerging global market for electric vehicles, posting sales numbers that have challenged Tesla for the top spot. BYD has invested heavily in its design team, luring former Audi Group chief designer Wolfgang Egger to work on its passenger vehicles. Egger’s work culminated in the launch of six new BYD passenger vehicles earlier in the year, with models including sedans, and compact and mid-sized SUVs, and the family sized BYD Song Max van. BYD has strongly invested in infrastructure to support the deployment of electric vehicles, including the deployment of wireless electric bus chargers in Indianapolis. The wireless charging inductors will deliver 300kW of charging capacity, allowing the US State’s a 33-strong electric bus fleet to operate on a 24/7 basis. BYD has also invested in the direct production of battery systems, to supply both its electric vehicle production, but also as it targets the home battery storage market, establishing the world’s largest battery manufacturing facility in Western China’s Qinghai province, with plans to produce up to 24GWh of battery devices annually. It is understood that BYD is also looking for a location for a potential new Australian headquarters, people familiar with the matter have said.

profit margins in IC cars are higher than EVs, as well as the servicing revenues, that's the main reason you don't see more. IC technology is mature and is effectively ended

this happened 6(?) years ago Phil

an aircraft is only as good as its ground crew. did many people working on the tigers go to europe to see how they maintain them over there?

Are you assuming that the french army <= Australian army?

My point is, would you let your daughter join the army? The Tiger is going well, not well enough to go Afghanistan but well enough.

*but* you might get raped or sex shamed out of the ADF

new hybrid looks interesting [/url]https://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2019/06/daher-airbus-and-safran-team-up-to-develop-ecopulsetm-a-distributed-hybrid-propulsion-aircraft-demonstrator.html

I'd like to see the evidence that the ADF is a meritocracy

Uber Advances Plans For Urban Aerial Ridesharing With New Partners Jun 11, 2019 Graham Warwick | The Weekly Of Business Aviation EMAIL [*] [*]Tweet [*] [*] Comments 2 Jaunt: Uber Uber has added a fifth electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) vehicle developer to its Elevate aerial ridesharing program, announcing a partnership to develop Jaunt Air Mobility’s Reduced Rotor Operating Speed Aircraft (ROSA). Jaunt joins existing vehicle partners Bell, Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences, Karem Aircraft and Pipistrel. The startup acquired the rights to Carter Aviation Technologies’ slowed-rotor compound (SR/C) concept. Carter was part of a team led by Mooney that was selected by Uber in 2017 as one of its original Elevate vehicle partners, but was later dropped. The ROSA is based on the SR/C concept, which is essentially the combination of an autogyro and a compound helicopter. The rotor is spun up for vertical takeoff and landing, but is unpowered in forward flight, when lift is provided by a wing and propulsion by a pusher propeller. The rotor is slowed in flight to reduce drag while the wing increases efficiency. The lower tip speed reduces noise compared with a helicopter. Jaunt has signed a memorandum of understanding with Honeywell to define avionics, navigation, flight control, electric propulsion and connectivity systems for the ROSA. As part of the agreement, they will work together to develop the technical requirements, statement of work and definitive agreement to support Jaunt’s eVTOL demonstration by the fall of 2021. Jaunt was named as a vehicle partner at the opening of the third Uber Elevate Summit, held in Washington on June 11-12. Also at the Summit, Slovenia’s Pipistrel revealed the configuration of its eVTOL aircraft, a five-seater with low-pressure electric fans housed in canoes shoulder-mounted either side of the cabin and a pusher propeller on top of the tail for propulsion. Uber says the fans draw 50% less power in hover than traditional rotors. EmbraerX unveiled the latest version of its eVTOL, which now has two rear-mounted ducted props for propulsion and eight rotors for lift. The rotors are mounted in fore-aft pairs on booms attached to the tips of a forward canard and rear wing. The rotors stop and align with the airflow to reduce drag in forward flight. Bell displayed the full-scale mockup of its Nexus tilting ducted-fan eVTOL. Karem presented a refined design for its Butterfly Optimum Speed Tilt Rotor eVTOL, which has four proprotors mounted on the tips of the high wing and V tail. Boeing displayed a model of its two-seat Passenger Air Vehicle (PAV), which made its first hover flight at Aurora in January. The PAV has six lift rotors mounted on two rails below the fuselage, a wing and a pusher propeller for propulsion. Uber itself unveiled a full-scale mockup of its first air-taxi cabin design, developed with Safran Cabin’s ZEO Studio. The cabin, which seats four passengers in two rows, plus a pilot, is intended to act as common reference model for eVTOL vehicle developers. “We had six full-scale mockups, with multiple iterations in each one, looking at the seats, liners and window positioning,” says Scott Savian, executive vice president of ZEO. Requirements include minimum weight and cost, but also safety and comfort. “So while the cabin may be minimal in some ways, it’s absolutely purpose built to the mission,” he says. In other agreements announced at the Summit, Uber Elevate is to collaborate with AT&T to explore how 4G LTE and 5G connectivity can be used with eVTOL air taxis and cargo drones. And Elevate has selected real-estate developer Related Companies as its preferred partner for developing Skyports to support the rollout of its Uber Air network in the U.S. Existing Uber Elevate property-development partner Hillwood, meanwhile, has announced plans to establish the AllianceTexas Mobility Innovation Zone at Fort Worth Alliance Airport in Texas. The zone will be used to help develop standards for urban drones and air taxis. Alliance is close to Dallas, one of the launch cities where Uber Elevate plans to begin demonstrations in 2020 and commercial service in 2023.

you can't sack someone in the army for bad at their jobs

the old adage that 80% of people consider themselves to be average.

It certainly got a chuckle out of me

I think Bex is feeling better, explaining the dunning kruger effect. [/url]https://www.homebuiltairplanes.com/forums/threads/raptor-composite-aircraft.24721/page-36#post-476658

how good are April 1 jokes that blow up

Subscribe to read | Financial Times Air safety agencies rush to draw up rules for flying taxis Several companies aim to begin services within the next 5 to 10 years Lilium’s battery-powered, five-seater prototype air taxi, which it hopes to bring into service by 2025 © Reuters Share on Twitter (opens new window) Share on Facebook (opens new window) Share on LinkedIn (opens new window) Save to myFT Josh Spero and Sylvia Pfeifer in London and Nicolle Liu in Hong Kong June 3, 2019 Print this page 31 Aviation safety agencies around the world are rushing to draw up regulations for flying taxis, with a wave of companies promising to be ready to launch services within the next five to 10 years. In Europe, aviation regulator EASA said it was preparing a set of tests to ensure the safety of both the vehicles and the software that will run them. It said its approach to flying taxis, which is at an early stage, would cover operations and maintenance, the competence of operators, noise pollution, and making sure that the software used by the taxis is scrutinised “with the level of robustness needed”. “This new certification approach would allow EASA to understand how the software behaves in different circumstances,” it said. In the UK, the Civil Aviation Authority has set up a virtual space where flying taxi companies can test their technology, while China’s regulator has authorised five companies to explore airworthiness standards and certification by the end of the year. The market for transporting humans around cities could be worth $674bn by 2040, according to a 2018 study by bank Morgan Stanley, and transport company Uber wants to launch an “Uber Air” aerial ride-sharing network by 2023. There are more than 170 companies developing aircraft powered by electricity, consultancy Roland Berger found earlier this year, half of which are for urban air taxis. Manufacturers say that the first air taxis will have human pilots, before they create artificial intelligence powerful and safe enough to fly the aircraft by itself. The Civil Aviation Authority of China also recently issued draft guidelines that suggested China will develop regulatory standards and co-ordinate demonstrations of UAV by 2020, then build an actual aviation management system by 2035. Regulators are also giving developers the ability to explore how their tech will work in cities. In May, the UK’s CAA announced it had created a virtual “sandbox” for organisations to test their technology. Of the first six, one was innovation charity Nesta, which will explore the future of urban drone use in the UK; another was Volocopter, which is developing its own urban air taxis. Another project in the CAA’s sandbox was from Altitude Angel, which is developing an unmanned traffic management system for automated drones, akin to air traffic control for aeroplanes. Lilium launches city travel electric air taxi The Morgan Stanley study envisaged the market starting as “an ultra-niche add-on” to established modes of transport, before becoming “a cost-effective, time-efficient method of travelling short to medium distances”. Richard Aboulafia, analyst at the Teal Group in the US, said cost will be a key barrier, noting that the market for helicopter travel remains small. “This is not a question of regulation or technology. It’s a question of economics. Very few people can afford to use vertical flying technology on a regular basis,” he said. Companies from Airbus to Uber have announced plans for flying vehicles, or aircraft that can hop from one building to another, driven by breakthroughs in electric motors and battery power. The four-passenger CityAirbus electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft made its first tethered flight on May 3 in Germany. Uber does not want to build its own vehicles, but has recruited manufacturers including Bell, Boeing and Embraer to develop Uber Air. Embraer is in the early stages of developing its eVTOL through its subsidiaries EmbraerX and Atech. Last July, the UK aero-engine group Rolls-Royce announced plans for an electric aircraft with rotating wings that could take off or land vertically, and which it thinks could be available by the early to mid-2020s. Recommended Lex Lilium/electric aviation: wing and a prayer Lilium, a Germany-based start-up, last month unveiled what it claimed was the world’s first all-electric, five-seater plane that it plans to use as a public air taxi service from as early as 2025. The company is already in talks with EASA about certifying the plane. But a spokesman said the aircraft, which will be piloted and has a fixed wing, is designed in such a way that it could fly under existing certification that covers “light aircraft”. “We would prefer not to do that and EASA are working on a specification specifically for our sector,” said the Lilium spokesman, adding that “whichever certification route we go down, it will be as rigorous as today’s large commercial aircraft”. Elaine Whyte, UK drones lead at consultancy PwC and a former safety and airworthiness engineer in the Royal Air Force, said air taxis would need the same safety standards that a century of aviation had already established. “This is likely to be a significant barrier to entry and require different skill sets for those potential manufacturers new to this sector,” she said. Anita Sengupta, co-founder of Los Angeles-based start-up Airspace Experience Technologies, which wants to popularise “private air mobility”, said: “Cyber security needs to be sorted in the air just as it does on land . . . Currently you would be cleared by air traffic control but in future you could imagine a different system” involving AI and machine learning. Additional reporting by Tim Bradshaw and Leyla Boulton in London and Andres Schipani in São Paulo