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Moving to a plant-based diet can mitigate climate change
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You got me interested. Had a read of a random article on them, here you hit the nail on the head with the idea about torque.
Seems the expense, charging time, and distance travelled on one charge combine to hold them back.
Yeah looks like range might be worse than I was expecting. I thought you'd be able to get 3–6 hours or so, which would be sufficient for an afternoon of fun. But the first one on that page only gets 1 hour at 60 km/h. That's definitely a real limitation. Much more real than the limitations on EV cars are today.
While reading your comment I immediately thought of this company that's using hydrofoils to overcome the energy requirements in their watercraft: https://candela.com/p-12-shuttle/ Also, recent video here of a trial usage of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fqnbskTAjI Very cool.
I see that that article does actually mention hydrofoils (and seems to link to a video with one), but the specific product they mention is the Sea-Doo Rise which is a board, not a 'scooter' style vehicle (video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GthLd2i01uk). That one seems to be a dead product, though.
I did find some hydrofoiling electric jet skis, though:
That hydrofoil ferry looks impressive. Kinda hope they go for something like this for the Perth ferry terminal expsnsion, but i don't even know if they're planning on buying new ferries.
I've never been jet skiing, so i don't know how people get theirvfun out of it. I'd imagine some of the fun is derived from the tight cornering and ocean spray which a hydrofoil jetski would reduce significantly.