REFLECTOR: electric Velocity

[Scott Derrick]

There are a couple of guys in Albuquerque that are converting a LongEZ
to all electric.  I think they are still in the planning stage though. 
They share a Velocity and a Piper something.  lost there names and phone
number but they fly out of AEG.

Scott


Douglas Holub wrote:
> Scott's latest adventure reminds me how complicated the internal
> combustion engine is. I can't wait to put an electric motor in my V.
> Decades away? We'll see. It's hard to design an electric car that
> makes sense today because automotive engines are so cheap. $2000 buys
> you a great automotive engine. But airplane engines cost $25,000, and
> that buys a lot of hi-tech batteries (or fuel cells or capacitors.)
>  
> Quiet, smooth, no loss of power at altitude, simple, virtually no
> maintenance-- it will revolutionize GA. You heard it here first.
>  
> Doug Holub
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