There are bright-ish spots in the continuing decline of the UK, and I say bright-ish because no sooner than this tech was perfected at a university college in Oxford, it would be bought up by Mercedes: revenue of business here being diverted to states abroad at the soonest opportunity.
But as the UK powers down, electrical motors are clearly powering up and this axial flow type producing an insane 1000hp whilst weighing just twelve kilos or 25lb.
The inventor Ray Kurzweil said that we should design for the future, for what might be rather than just what happens to be.
In view of advances in motors, batteries and solar power you might want sea-going drones to run on petrol for the current range and endurance that it would provide; but going forward you'd be equally insane not to transition to electrical power at the soonest.
Whether it applies to EVs however is something else altogether: growing numbers are reverting to gasoline upon the sooner-than-expected expiry of their EVs, when they realise they're buying into a subscription model instead of just a car.
