New Electric Motor That’s Super Light and Powerful for Electric Airplanes

Re:New Electric Motor That’s Super Light and Powerful for El... by dzhiurgis on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @06:12AM (#12077888)

I believe pluggable, human carrying quads have potential in couple of industries like building maintenance, firefighter ladder replacement or lift alternatives.

Problem is the power delivery, you'd need around 20kW of power. That is not available just about everywhere and requires fairly thick cable.

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Re:New Electric Motor That’s Super Light and Powerful for El... by skykooler on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @10:51AM (#12079508)

There's a startup called Plugless that makes wireless charging equipment for cars[1] (basically a scaled-up version of the wireless phone chargers). The current version puts out around 3.3kW continuous - not quite that 20 kW, but in the ballpark. Perhaps that technology could be developed to suit that niche.

[1]https://www.pluglesspower.com/look/?jump=tech#tech-specs

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Re:New Electric Motor That’s Super Light and Powerful for El... by lunchTime42 on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @08:18AM (#12078401)

I want a cable laying snake..

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