Electric Aircraft
topic on 6 shows · 11 statements across 6 episodes
Founder's Journal 
We Live to Build 
My First Million 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 
Catalyst 
How I Built This
11 statements about Electric Aircraft, every show
Adcock: Paying Passengers Will Fly on Electric Aircraft Within 5 Years
“So I think within the next, like, five years, we'll be taking passengers, like, paying passengers around in, in air spaces here in the world on electric aircraft like this.”
Adcock: No electric aircraft had ever been certified in history before Archer
“Nobody in history has had ever certified an electric aircraft before.”
Electric flights cost one-sixth to one-half as much as gas-powered planes
“A six to half the cost of flying gas-powered airplanes, and you're doing it sustainably.”
Adcock: Electric aircraft are far safer and quieter than helicopters
“With electric aircraft, you can basically make him like much safer and more quiet than like traditional helicopters. Like it's a far better product overall.”
Electric aircraft range depends on three core physics levers
“You can boil almost everything down to three big levers that the business had or the product had on the aircraft side. You basically had we basically, I basically built an, like, you know, electric range equation that amounted to how much powertrain efficiency…”
Electric aircraft remove thousands of parts and improve safety over helicopters
“When you moved electric, you were basically removing thousands of parts that are not necessary in a helicopter. You're changing the dynamics, like, the aerodynamic dynamics of the rotors and the blades that Change, like, the acoustic signature significantly. Y…”
Mukhopadhyay: Electric Aircraft Are 2.5x to 3x More Energy Efficient
“And so these are significantly shorter than what fossil fueled aircraft can do, but they would be also a lot more efficient up to two and a half to three times more efficient than fossil fueled aircraft on just like a pure energy basis.”
Mukhopadhyay: Pipistrel Velis Electro is the only certified electric aircraft
“Currently there is one certified electric aircraft, and that one is the Pipistrel Vellis Electro. It's just a two-seater, and it can fly for about 40 minutes, and it's more of a training aircraft.”
Mukhopadhyay: Electric aircraft can only address 0.1% of global passenger kilometers
“These electric aircraft in the end don't actually end up playing a significant role in terms of the global aviation market. We're talking about close to like .1% of the global aviation traffic can be serviced by these aircraft. Now that's in terms of sort of p…”
Mukhopadhyay: Electric Aircraft Are 6-7x More Efficient Than SAF Jets
“When you take into account the electric propulsion efficiencies, you can get close to six to seven times more efficiency between electric aircraft and jet aircraft that are run on synthetic aviation fuels.”