Are there any disruptive model in the airline industry like electric planes or hypersonic in the next decade?
Because i have been reading an article that there's a start up company called wright electric that wants to build an all electric airliners
For example easyjet wants to fly passengers in a electric airliners in the next decade does that mean airlines have to cancel their orders from boeing and airbus
Because the way i see electric planes not viable because batteries are heavy i know technology improves does it take a long time for planes to evolve the way we travel because we still use planes from the 1960s that fly slow
I'm not any sort of expert, just fairly aware. Personally, I don't think there will be any significant changes to commercial flight in the next decade if not two. There's talk of supersonics and things, and those could happen, sure. At $10,000 a seat, they aren't going to take over any more than the Concorde did.
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No, electric planes just aren't very feasible at the moment, and they likely never will be. That's because the amount of energy stored in a battery, for a given weight, would never be greater than that of jet fuel. And you're not driving a car… You're flying a plane, you need a lot more propulsion. The energy density of something like kerosene is much much greater than the energy density of batteries. Meaning its much more economically viable to use cheap, high energy jet fuel instead of bulky batteries.
It is very possible to have niche small electric aircrafts, and you're probably going to see that in the upcoming future. But large commercial jets capable of a range more than 30-50 mi is just way too impractical. Plus, we've got jet fuel ran engines pretty well figured out. It's going to require a whole lot more research and testing to get electrical jet turbines to the same efficiency level to that of jet fuel engines. And right now, jet planes are extremely safe, and there isn't really much of a need to switch.
Making a comparison of a plane and a car just isn't appropriate. Planes are a couple orders of magnitude more complex. Could hybrids be possible? Maybe. But unless there's a need of a super high energy density battery vs. Investing in cheaper high energy density jet fuel, I just can't see the former taking over priority.
Yes and no. Really I can see more and more airlines going with more classes both offering basic fares as well as more premium economy options. General travel via hyper-sonic jets is something of the distant future, if ever, reason being the technology of this has to get to a point where they can fly them at a cost that they can get a lot of people to buy tickets, otherwise its just not going make money
Not likely, ever
Check out this article in Newsweek
Not electric, but supersonic might be tried again.
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