For Chip Yates, it’s all about setting world records. Yates, who also holds the world record for the fastest run on an electric motorcycle at 200 mph, flew the Long-ESA electric airplane at the Inyokern Airport in California’s Mojave Desert this week. Yates was able fly the electric plane at the speed of 202.6 miles per hour, breaking the previous record of 175 mph.
The Long-ESA is actually an electric version of Burt Rutan’s Long-EZ. In case you didn’t know, Rutan is an aerospace engineer who won an X-Prize in 2004. But Chip Yates isn’t resting on his laurels yet as he intends to up the ante to even greater speeds. Yates is planning to share the details of the feat as well as his plans for a nonstop trans-Atlantic electric flight at the EAA Airventure in Oshkosh, Wisconsin next week.
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Cars, unlike humans, do not need to “grow up”, but they can experience different versions for a same model. Case in point, the all-electric Nissan Leaf will soon arrive for the masses in the form of a stretch limo edition, where the first of its kind had already debuted in Tennessee. Perhaps this will usher in a new era of eco-conscious celebrities who might reconsider their Toyota Prius and actually show up for black tie and red carpet events in Nissan Leaf limousines. At this moment in Tennessee, the all-electric Nissan Leaf stretch limo is running short trips for VIPs who are staying at the Embassy Suites hotel in Franklin.
What you see above was birthed by the mind of a genius, although it looks really funny compared to all of the other planes that we have seen in the past. You could say that the FanWing is somewhat revolutionary in its design, relying on huge rotating fans that are embedded in its wings which will work to deliver not only lift but propulsion as well. Scale models have made their way across the skies for years now, but it seems that work has been done to deliver a manned ultralight prototype which is touted to hit our skies sometime early next year. That is not too much time left, with it being July now, so we do look forward in anticipation as to how the FanWing will perform.
If you’ve been shopping for an Audi A4 or A5, here’s one more (geeky) reason to be interested: both 2013 models will come with in-car WiFi, which is connected to a 3G modem, which will work on the T-Mobile network. Yes, your car will now have its own SIM card (and wireless bill of $30 or so). This WiFi setup will be able to connect up to 8 devices to the internet, and we assume that it also enables local network communications in case folks in the back want to network-play. 
