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Old 7th Dec 2015, 15:26
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Romeo Tango
 
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There will have to be some sort of infrastructure for electric cars whether it is big connections to the grid or battery swap service .... maybe light aviation will be able to tag onto that.

Also in due course the grown up aircraft will want to run on electricity. The infrastructure for that will be massive ....

If you pitch up at Cannes and want 200KWH of charge in an hour I expect you will pay a premium, if you can leave it on charge overnight you will probably pay much less.

.... on further thought if Cannes are setup for charging electric Learjets they should be able to deal with an electro-spamcan in short order

Also note that the facilities for charging electric Learjets or even electric Boeings will be the same as, or at least compatible with, that required for electro-spamcans so we will no longer be dependent on an unpopular fuel that is often unavailable.

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