Why worry about tires, these days they also have wings!
"The future of flight
If you’ve ever played with a carbon footprint calculator and plugged in your flight history, you’ve seen how a trip just an hour or two away ballooned your total impact on the environment.
All that jet fuel takes a toll, but electric planes may swoop in and help — one day. Instead of those 176 pounds of carbon emissions for one measly roundtrip flight from San Francisco to Los Angeles, an emissions-free aircraft could fly that same distance.
Tesla — and to a lesser extent Nissan, Chevy, and even Toyota with its hybrid Prius — made the masses believe in electric cars. Now, many companies want flyers to believe in electric planes.
Aviation startups are working to remove expensive, polluting jet fuel from the flight equation and replace it with electric batteries.
The idea of electric planes isn’t new, but we're closer than we've ever been thanks to battery improvements."
