{"id":729,"date":"2022-04-19T19:48:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T19:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.e-flight-journal.com\/?p=729"},"modified":"2022-04-19T19:48:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T19:48:06","slug":"norwegian-startup-designing-electric-flying-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/?p=729","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian Startup Designing Electric Flying Boat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Norwegian electric aviation startup Elfly is designing an fully electric-powered amphibian flying boat and has received $1.8 million\u00a0funding from the Research Council of Norway.\u00a0The hull&#8217;s design is currently\u00a0being tested at\u00a0SINTEF\u00a0&#8217;s tow tank in Trondheim.\u00a0The research that will provide data for the design of the optimal hull is a separate research project supported by Norway&#8217;s Regional Research Fund.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the CEO of Elfly Eric Lithun, the goal is to be able to offer flexible mobility in Norway, have zero emissions, significantly less noise pollution and develop new sustainable business models. The design goal is to\u00a0fly 200km\u00a0at about 250 km\/hour.\u00a0Lithun\u00a0hopes that with this electric flying boat,\u00a0the travel time from Bergen to Stavanger will be 40 minutes compared to four to five hours by car. Eventually the electric flying boat will able to fly from Bergen to Trondheim via a stopover in Molde, which\u00a0will be noticeable from center to center\u00a0and\u00a0will beat all other options even with a stopover. Lithun believes that the main reason why seaplanes are not already widespread is because today&#8217;s aircraft have internal combustion engines that suck in oxygen and salt water that corrodes the engine\u00a0which leads to sky-high maintenance costs to operate.\u00a0By switching to electricity, this problem disappears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/news.e-flight-journal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image-2.png 800w, https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image-2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image-2-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>A sub-scale RC model currently being used to test the hull design<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The electric flying boat will have room for nine passengers, and Elfly will offer flights on a par with other commercial players. The goal&nbsp;of Elfly&nbsp;is to have 15 to 20 such flying boat&nbsp;in the air by 2030. In addition to passenger travel, the&nbsp;flying boat&nbsp;can also be used for freight transport, ambulance transport and premium flights where you can charter the entire aircraft. Lithun envisages&nbsp;that it can be used for exclusive electric plane safaris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Norwegian electric aviation startup Elfly is designing an fully electric-powered amphibian flying boat and has received $1.8 million\u00a0funding from the Research Council of Norway.\u00a0The hull&#8217;s design is currently\u00a0being tested at\u00a0SINTEF\u00a0&#8217;s tow tank in Trondheim.\u00a0The research that will provide data for the design of the optimal hull is a separate research project supported by Norway&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-flight-journal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}