There are to be three variants of the ES-300: an all-electric 200km version, a hybrid 30-seat 400km version, and a hybrid 25-seat 800km version. And the ES-300 airframe very much is not some existing airframe.

Finally I understand where turbo cancer comes from!

EV fires are rarer than ICE fires (and slower spreading as well), so given that the competition is fuel-based....

They didn't bother to install a co-pilot, a seat for the co-pilot, passengers, seats for the passengers, the hybrid gen set as you say, fuel for the gen set, and who knows if they installed a full production sized battery or just a smaller one

Are you just learning about the concept of a prototype in this comments section?

That's not correct. There are three modes. All-electric, hybrid-30 passenger, and hybrid-25 passenger, with ranges of 200km, 400km, and 800km, respectively. The airframe is to be certified for 20k feet (FL200), with optimal cruise altitudes from 10-15k feet, but this was explicitly described by the company as a "low-altitude test flight".

And to all the people going, "LOL, that's never going to cross the Pacific!" or similar range comments... and? Long haul flights (over 4000km) are only 5% of commercial flights. Very short / regional flights are 27% of total flights. There's very much a market for puddle jumpers, and airlines very much will buy them if they offer competitive advantages.

Politics is into you.

There's also nothing precluding someone else making some advance in this rapidly moving field that leaves them behind, and nothing prevents China from undercutting them with DCs running on cheap renewable energy in the not too far future.

First they have to find a route to profitability year on year, not just for a month and if you ignore a lot.

Or... We just need for the economy to keep going the way it's going and for the feds to print their way out of the problem, erasing a few zeros of net worth in the process

Slashdot is peopled primary with the atypical. We should never assume we're representative, as we usually aren't.

Modded down by someone who never made it out of elementary school, I reckon

Bet they vote for people who fuck people in elementary school, too

We found it in the real world, based on current events you pretend aren't happening because they interfere with your full-throated support for a child rapist.

Why do you love rapists so much, especially child rapists?

No, there are still some piece of shit rapeublicans here.

Since they don't seem to say what battery chemistry they use on their website or in their press releases I would tend to assume that this is a realistic concern because they are probably using NCM. (If they were using something less hazardous, they would probably brag about it.)

Before Y2K they were optional.