Noertker and his team at the Los Angeles-based startup Ampaire are developing first-generation electric aircraft — and they’re far from the only ones. Something on the order of 170 companies have joined what Noertker calls an electric aircraft “arms race.” Several made a splash at the Paris Air Show a couple weeks back.I wonder though. Yesterday while I was in the garden a motorcycle roared down Reston Avenue. I'd assume that doing an electric motorcycle would be very easy compared to an electric airplance. However, my cynical take is that the roar of the cycle is 90 percent of the value of the vehicle.
So, a modest prediction: development and sales of electric airplanes will advance faster than electric motorcycles.
