Electrical Drive EngineeringThe electric direct drive motor solution with 3 separate controllers and ‚intelligent' startup software provides that different kinds of energy storages can be used. For example you can select for each motor segment not only different battery types even more than this: solar cells, fuel cells or electric power generator. In this way there is great variety of energy sources possible. We are favoring for future technology a combination of high power LiIon batteries in combination with reformer fuel cell techniques consuming ethanol. Our two blade folding propeller designed by Jürgen Arnold (scientist at the DLRGöttingen) and produced by ‚HELIX' has am maximum efficiency of 92% at cruising speed (50 mp/h). With the electric drive efficency of the same amount we only need a 4 kW fuel cell stack to cruise with DESiE all day long.