Just one...................
Posted on 04/21/2023 7:05:08 AM PDT by Red Badger
180 mile range. It’s just ridiculous
It is very poorly written.
You suggest that they are saying the market potential is $8B in 2025, but that is not their current order book. That makes sense.
But there is another way to read it: “The expansion has the potential to enable fulfillment of $8 billion in commercial orders by 2025 at the headquarters in Rhode Island.” I interpret that to say that the plant expansion will have enough capacity to fill their $8 billion order book by 2025.
Your interpretation is probably correct. There is no way they can have that many orders.
Regardless, I cannot believe anybody would invest in a factory that could produce $8 billion of product in a few years without a strong, non-cancelable order book.
I worked in enough startups to know how this game is played.
OMG that thing is ugly. My first thought was it resembles a Soviet helicopter. Then I looked it up, hah hah, it was Soviet.
My recollection of aviation is back in the 30’s and 40’s they had some very successful amphibious airliners and military planes, and they looked pretty good.
The Ekranoplan “ended badly” because the USSR collapsed. The vehicle worked as designed.
You might ask the Electric Boat Company "what could go wrong?". Or you could as Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company. Or Ingalls shipbuilding company. There's plenty of actual experience to answer your question.
Meh. Reminds me of many of Hitler’s military gigantism projects, like the Maus and the Gustav siege gun at Sevastopol.
The whole idea is ridiculous. As a conventional aircraft uses its fuel it gets lighter, a good thing. This thing is just a brick that can fly briefly after a 2 day charge. The money that is being wasted on this fairy tale is tragic
As a result, we are on track to deliver our product to market by the mid-decade.
I wonder how many ‘D’ cells it takes to run the darn thing.
Just one...................
Looks like a scaled down version of the Caspian Sea Monster. This will likely fail too.
Oh, its pretty.
I rode a hydrofoil ferry Denmark to Sweden, once, it’s probably similar...............
“... they used “sustainable” three or four times in the short article ...”
‘Sustainable’ has become a trigger word for me. As soon as I read that word in an article I know the content is leftist claptrap. I stop reading and move on.
‘Sustainable’ = Bull-shiite
All-electric distributed power system in action.
Who knew that Electric Boat puts their electric motors on the outside of submarines in contact with the salt water...
Thanks, I needed that! :^)
Weight to power ratio of lithium ion batteries to gasoline - 800 percent
Yeah ... you got me.
Except that you don't.
Ever heard of an Azipod? The electric motor is IN THE POD. Outside the hull of the ship. Underwater.
I'm not a big fan of electric vehicles.
I'm also not a big fan of BS or of "snark".
Azipod is inside a watertight container, or "pod."
The electric WIG vessel shown here has its motors out in the open so that they can be AIR COOLED, making them susceptible to salt water spray. Which was the point of the original poster.
So your "Electric Boat Company" comment was the snark.
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