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Thank you for this review. Just know that there are people who like flying these with bigger, more efficient wings, where 1 hour+ flight times can be achieved. I enjoy flying my 27m buzz, and this SP140 is perfect for that, for my style of flying.

I really appreciate you doing this. I can't think of a more trusted tester and I was craving this information. My flying style is basically going up to 3k feet, falling with style, and repeat. However, I'm about 20 minutes from my favorite farm so the range is a concern. I bet Kyle Mooney would love this. :)

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't excited to see this video! I've seen many of your previous reviews so I know your style, this is gonna be sick! Thanks Tucker!!

Looked like an approx. one hour flight time based in your 6 minute 10% usage, but 44 minutes is not too bad for an initial product. Batteries are improving, so eventually 1 hour flight will likely be achievable under normal conditions.

Great tests. As I say to people, it depends what your usage case is. I love electric cars, but I don't do long drives very often. And as you pointed out, if you just want to get some air under your feet in an evening, half an hour is perfect.

Excellent content!! I would really like to see a video where you use this as a paraglider for a longer flight, flying thermals and/or hang and only boosting with the motor during the start and as required to stay airborne!!

An interesting comparison would be the cost of operations. What does it cost to fly 30 minutes on gas vs electric? What about maintenance costs in the long term?

Would be interesting to have a competition on who can have the longest flight with an electric paramotor riding thermals

Some things I would like to add: I think the term "best case" for flight time isn't really typical in this case, as the vast majority of people will not be flying a sporty 16m advanced wing if they are aiming for long flight times. Similarly, for a "normal flight," most people are not flying the most sporty wing, "the Freeride," and performing barrel rolls; this is not an average flight for an average person. Of course, most of us who fly paramotors understand that Tucker is not "normal." However, for those who dont fly paramotors, I think this could use some clarity. As a side note, the battery Tucker is flying here is no longer available, as it has been upgraded to a larger capacity version, increasing from 3.7 kWh to 4.8 kWh. This will proportionally increase the flight time. Therefore, any orders placed going forward will include the new battery design at no additional cost. This also applies to any orders placed within the past month. The curse of electric is that you want to fly longer then you would with gas motor. Just because it is more comfortable to fly but you cant. So that is why it's kinda a curse 😔. But batterys will just be getting better and better so it will be less and less of a curse over time.

I loved the full length Tucker I'm Jazzed to start flying Electric.

I have been super interested in paramotoring for a long time and I am looking to start soon. I greatly appreciate your testing and it is great to see how effective the electric is compared to gas. Thank you for taking the time to do multiple trials.

Been watching you for years now Tucker. I wish I had the guts to fly like that. It must feel amazing.

I’m super excited to see this. I’ve always hated small engine tinkering, and since I love my electric vehicle so much, I have been waiting for the time electric hobby motors become more standard!

Super awesome video! In terms of video ideas, I'd love to see an altitude test, more so to learn how the effects of large changes in altitude compare between gasoline and electric paramotors. Thanks for posting!

thanks for all the testing Tucker

Thanks for the video, I love the idea of an eparamotor BUT at 78 pounds… that alone is a Deal Breaker… my Power to Fly Atom 80 weighs just over 50 with fuel… more maintenance no doubt but I can’t imagine trying to carry 78 pounds and only flying 30 minutes, Thanks again

Great video, Tucker!! Answered all my questions.

Tucker, I am from Canada and coming to AZ next weekend the 27th to get my motorbike and ride it back home. Id be thrilled to come watch you fly somewhere and grab a handshake! Cheers man safe flying. If not ill be looking for ya in the skies while I'm down there.

I'd love to see how the battery lasts for a climb & glide style of flying, like one might do for practicing wingovers and stuff. And if it's not too boring, compare cost of ownership. What I am most looking forward to is the sound testing. I feel like noise is what gets LZs shut down, and I find it fatiguing too. Silent would be amazing (and impossible) but any improvement would be exciting.

Tucker, thanks for the temperature check after landing. I think a rise is normal,and the cooling is adequate if you can still touch it with the back of your hand for a certain time. That shows that the thermal design of the whole engine is good. The short flying time is disappointing. 👍😊🇫🇷

Do you feel like you could throw another battery in, and fly again? Could the motor handle it?

Love that we're able to follow "newish" technology and see the ups and downs (no pun intended) as it grows and gets better. Thanks for being a public test person. Also, I've watched pretty much all of your vids, and I'm frothing at the mouth for another Iceland or Nordic video ;). A man can dream, can't he?

Great video as always, just the information I was looking for! The intro reminded me of Bill Nye, which was also awesome. 🤙

I enjoyed watching your flights. You are always very entertaining, you have a great station.

Thanks for the detailed flight time vid. I also got about the same results so was cool to see the comparison.

Your videos are the best Tucker!

"Did I just see a flying man? No, impossible" 5 minutes later "Hold up...there he is again!"

awesome video tucker very informative.

Tucker, thanks, looking forward to the sounds tests. Do some flights on more staid canopies?

Well I'm broke at least I watch these cool videos it's like in flying awesome

One thing to note though, is that on this one, you get your one 1/2 hr flight, and then you have to go home 'cause your battery needs to charge for a few hours. On a petrol paramotor, you could just refill the tank and go again. And while you could buy more batteries for this thing, they're probably quite expensive, and given how heavy they are it'd be a lot more weight than a few litres of extra fuel...

I'm curious if this is practical and light enough for just getting into a thermal and staying aloft.

That was incredible at 8 minutes 43 seconds that flip you did it was trippy to watch I wasn't ready for it

HAHA, Love the BASE promo at the beginning 🤙🤙

My typical flight is right around 1hr to 1hr 15mins. Maybe 10% of my flights are under 30 mins so this technology just hasnt come far enough to work for me. When it does I'm on board, but not yet....

Great video. Being mostly conservative I can see this working. The range might be disappointing though. There haven't been any truly comprehensive unbiased realistic reviews out there. This one answeredmost of my questions. Excellent review, thanks!

Great info. I was hoping i could put this exact motor on a trike, and in place of the usual gas and coolant tank, put an extra one or two batteries. If I could get the batteries in parallel, then it would use all equally, other wise I'd have to hot swap the connectors as each battery goes. The motor is probably undersized for what I want to do but I hope the company will offer improvements.

A 2 blade prop will make a huge difference too.

Having tried out a Surron Ultra Bee for a summer, this was my exact experience with a high power battery. Amazing, instant power for about 20 minutes and then cruising your way back home. Very fun, not the most practical yet.

As always great video. I would say you are spot on. For your average pilot who goes for a 30 min flight after work, this is a low maintenance higher (hopefully we shall see) reliability option. Suggestion for other videos as I have seen a few other times in the comments, altitude test, how does it compare to a 2 stroke once you get about 6-7k feet?

Tip - Always let your battery cool down before you recharge it as well. You will get more recharge cycles out of it that way.😁

It's good technology of future :) nice information, thanks for your work!

Cool to think about as battery tech improves, for short flights its great, for anyone wanting cross country or all day flights its just not there yet, its more of a purpose rig for competitive flying or a quick ride after work right now.

Beautifully presented, bro 👊🏻🤙🏻 i will one day own a paramotor 🙏🏻

Great idea with the altitude lock programming. Tesla feature bonus material/perks.

Love the content!

I never thought I would see the day Tucker flying a production electric paramotor.

ALTITUDE HOLD is something i am working on since months! strange that you mentioned that tucker 😁

I would love to see more electric videos

Thanks for your review. I'm very excited to someday transition over to electric paramotor. But it does not seem like the technology is quite there yet. Disappointing that you had such loss of power as the battery drained. Also, for me, the battery life would need to be x2 or x3 what you're showing for me to make that leap.

I would advise to turn the battery pack around, inserted from below. if it caches fire, drop it and go down safely, especially since you are burning the full range of the battery. they do not like that. and one more thing, there is the 'revolution' in prop tech, that would fit your channel! if and once it is out there!

very nice video that's just how you roll fly safe and jump safe

Hi is it possible to buy an extra battery so that you can land, battery swap and immediately go flying again? If it is possible to buy extra batteries, how much do they cost? And how long will a battery drained to 10%, take to charge back up to 90% from an electric vehicle with the ability to charge if (eg a Ford Lightening truck)

Do you think that it would be more efficient/a better use case to use this motor to power up to altitude and then glide around with it shut off for a while, rinse and repeat? Maybe chase thermals?

Amazing video.. as always. I was a little surprised by the power fall off .. . I thought you said this had a LFP chemistry battery. I watch a lot of car EV channels.. and one thing that they always mention.. is that LFP batteries give almost full power right to the end. There is not as much voltage difference between Full and Empty on LFP. chem... Love to see the new tech.. and this will only improve with time. Be cool to have a EV truck as your base.. and have it recharging batteries while you are flying.. You would need probably 5 pack to to fly continuously.

do you think it would be possible to have a second battery with you and Land shortly for switching batteries... just to maybe extend the range

Muy linda Máquina

Was waiting on this video to just see the performance. I must say only Tucker can turn a 360° and head back the way he came @4:08 . 2 years ago I would have loved to be able to win/fly this thing. Unfortunately my health now prevents me from running (Or even walking) with this thing on my back, so bummer for me. Can't wait to hear the lucky person who gets this and takes or has lessons to be able to fly a para-motor. I sure hope this thing doesn't end up on Ebay or something. Best of luck to all that follow Tucker. BTW, Mildred (Tuckers "Chase" camera) was named after my submitted grandmother's name and I was recognized on his channel...so I got that piece of history in my life! I proudly wear my Risky Biscuits merch, my favorite is "Don't report Tucker to the FAA!"

Awesome! I don't know how much range it would add, but if you could hook some solar cells on top of your wing, that would be sick!

also worth mentioning that as time goes on batteries degrade, especially if they're being charged to 100%.

Good info. Thanks. What is the battery chemistry 14th?

I'm sure that I'm in good company among your subscribers as a paraglider pilot who dreams of only having a motor as a back up in case that spot I was sure I'd find lift at didn't pan out, or if the landing spot I chose turned out to have a wire fence when I got closer. Would be nice to have second chances in flight. So the next test I'd like to see is how does it handle thermalling mid-day.

Man would I love to do that looks like do much fun

From an electronics perspective, 80C isn't too bad for what it's doing. Some of those chips are rated to 105C sometimes even higher. Also the hotter it gets the more it's able to dissipate in the environment, so a plateau at 80C on MOSFETs is pretty good. Obviously cooler is better but you probably don't want to carry around a 20lbs radiator just to make it mildly colder!

This peramotor is pretty amazing, i will say as someone who is very familiar with EVs dont use cruse control. Try to modulate the throttle as efficient as possible if its possible see if you can see the amp draw or the wattage. You can really get good range with evs don't work the motor as hard as possible with the given condition, love your vids man.

Not a pilot, but I fully agree with you man, I dont like the throttle display cutting out and the range is not there I think. I assume though more range means bigger battery and more weight so not sure if there is a sweet spot for this yet

Tucker, you need to run this exact same set of tests when it's hot, or warm. 85, to 95F. I've recently learned that batteries of this type tend not to perform as well in cold, or cool weather. I'd like to see if that hold true for this batter in warm or hot weather. Of course that's also going to affect lift, and thrust efficiency, as well. Thanks for the awesome video! :)

Well done and very informative. Would it be practical to stow a second battery theoretically increasing fly time and range ?

Perfect time for you to review this motor! I've been wanting it for almost a year now but there always comes something else i need to use my savings to😅. hope to win the giveaway but if not i just need to save for it a bit longer and just focus on paragliding for now😁

I have flown the X4 for a couple years so I'm pretty familiar with electric power. Compared to the SP140 the X4 is less efficient due to the smaller propellers but the batteries I use are of a bit higher mass/energy density. The advertised "40-60" mins I believe is "Flight time" not run time. You should include the time to descend after the battery runs out. 44 minutes ending at 500ft is a bit different from 44 minutes ending with 1000', or on the ground. When you're flying ICE and you have say 1 hour of fuel, you know that the climb out will burn fuel faster but you gain the time back when idling down burning almost nothing. That all said your test for the casual flight hit on the need for a 'go around' or two and leaving some juice available for that. Your test is very forgiving there because of your high level of skill and comparatively large, open, and safe LZ. I fly in an area with lots of tall trees and small LZs and I'm a newer pilot so I'd never run that over 30 minutes. I fly a boaty ;) wing and I'm only 170lbs, but I'd be wanting to be on the ground with 20% left for healthy go around performance.

Great testing here. I like this thing for what it is. I'd like to find out a little more about the durability of that frame and should a guy happen to have a rough landing is it somewhat easy/cheap to repair or would it be expensive? Thank you

For a lot of people electric hang or parra-motors are launch platforms to chase thermal flights with a fly home inbuilt. Could you try catching thermals on a couple of flights power off while thermaling and gliding down to a start altitude?

So cool!!

Thanks for the very informative video. I don't understand why in the ppg application that battery tech is not moving along much faster? It seems to me that other than flight time, that electric paramotors are superior in every other metric, please educate me if I am misguided?

The RPM in level flight cruise would be useful.

Please make more of the cactus shirts. Thanks

Electric paramotors are much much simpler devices and should require a lot less maintenance (not to mention the precise "throttle" contol and instant torque makes flying a breeze), but until battery technology gets better, it really does limit the use case. You won't be out flying all day like you could be with a gas paramotor.

Bi-blade vs the tri-blade, on electric. While the bi would be less aggressive, it would also pull less amps on the front half of the flight. Possibly a happy medium for longer casual flights.

Were you using the same battery and recharging or swapping the battery between tests?

Have someone weld you up a nice aluminum bracket that attached to the frame under the existing battery in line with the other one. Perfect alignment. So it looks top notch. Paint the bracket of course and mabye have a 3 velcro strap in the back that hold that spare battery. You would double your distance. I always pack an extra battery on my ebikes , plus i bring my charger. Most milage ive done with two packs was 75 miles. But if i bring my charger i get a lot more when im eating i charge etc. after that you just get tired and dont want to go any farther. I have a peddle assist only bike.

Thanks for the vid! No purchase necessary to enter sweepstakes and giveaways. I admire your sense of generating revenue, but not a fan of enticing sales by leading people to think they have to buy things to enter a giveaway. Don't let the lure of profits lead you too much. Wow, the throttle housing is 3d printed? I would expect something molded or milled. 40miutes aint much, but neither is a 16 meter glider. Once battery tech doubles in efficiency per pound, I'll be looking at electric. Until then, its similar fate with cars. Works great if you dont mind short time use, don't mind lithium and don't ask about recycling/costs. Fwiw, Im a 125lb pilot that enjoys flying a 27m pg wing...

You should post ambient temperature for yhe flights. Temperature can greatly affect battery performance.

A 3 blade prop will also decrease efficiency if you were to fly with a 2 blade you would increase the flight time but decrease the performance. As an FPV drone pilot you can definitely notice the difference with the prop when it comes to flight time and performance.

So, you did a 360 and made it back? Amazing.

I think as the battery technology advances electric paramotors will become more common. Currently there are batteries with 4 times mass to power index almost ready for manufacture. Which means with the same weight and size of battery, we will be able to get 4 hours of flight time. That will make a lot more sense. Plus the charging time will be greatly reduced.

That red glow next to the setting Sun Simulator is "The Destroyer" planet Nibiru😮

What about using this thing motor-glider style? I.e. use the motor to start and get to altitude. Then shut of the motor and use thermals to stay up. Like motor assisted paragliding. If someone is into paragliding but lives e.g. in the mid-west plains, something like this or a winch is needed to get started. But a winch requires a ground crew. This thing can do without.

Thanks T-Gottem!

so could you sacrifice some performance for range by using a 2 blade prop?

The thing that is off putting to me as someone who is saving up for a paramotor is the thought that while a gas engine has the capability to go for a couple hours and shouldn't really lose that capability much. An electric paramotor has a realistic max flight time of around 30 minutes and that flight time will only become smaller. That's why I think it would be interesting if you could compare how much money it would take to replace the battery to how much money spent on replacement parts that a gas paramotor would need in the amount of time it would take for the electric paramotor to lose enough battery life to where you get like 15 minutes max.

Super cool for sure, great info . just not sure i would spend 8k to fly 30 min at a time. it is interesting for sure and i would fly the heck out it if won for sure. stay safe have fun...

Recommend you get a thermal camera and repeat the high drain test. It would be interesting to actually "see" how hot things get.

This video is already out dated because open ppg no longer sells the 3.7kwh battery and it comes with a 4.8kwh battery now at the same price. That being said you could probably add 20% to all these numbers in the video. Also probably add another 10% or more because most people arent flying a sporty 16m glider like tucker is. Just some things to consider.

Impractical video suggestion: On the way to the field put a fully charged, secondary battery pack in a buried cache upwind where you can land mid flight and swap. Get ~80-90 minutes flight time.

luv u tucker

The biggest takeaway for me was that he was able to be clearly understood against the "noise" from the motor compared with a gas job.

Very cool, electric motor. How much does a rig like this cost? Thanks

Great video Tucker. 3 questions, what's the charge time, could you run it on a trike & could they provide a backup battery to help with emergency landings. A bit like a reserve tank in a car that you can switch to. Looks like Arizona is treating you well, best of luck mate. 👍

It would be nice to see max altitude climb. Obviously different gliders perform different but something tells me you wouldn't be climbing nearly as high as your moster