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Bookmark or Share- Electric aircraft - WikipediaAn electric aircraft is an aircraft powered by electricity. Electric aircraft are seen as a way to reduce the environmental effects of aviation, providing zero emissions and quieter flights. Electricity may be supplied by a variety of methods, the most common being batteries.
- Are electric planes the future of aviation? | World Economic ForumAirbus and Rolls-Royce have already completed tests of a hybrid airliner – the E-FanX – with one of its four jet engines replaced by two-megawatt electric motor. Airbus and Boeing are both working on electric planes, although Boeing says a fully electric airliner is still decades away.
- The World’s First All-Electric Jet Just Aced Its Maiden FlightA new battery-powered commercial aircraft can carry nine passengers up to 250 miles. Eviation is selling quieter battery-powered flight as something that can help communities. Flight length is ...
- Alice, the first all-electric passenger airplane, takes flightThe world’s first all-electric passenger aircraft has successfully taken to the sky. Israeli-founded company Eviation Aircraft successfully launched the Alice on Tuesday morning from Washington’s...
- Electric Planes, Once a Fantasy, Start to Take to the SkiesHow a small plane’s 16-day trip from Vermont to Florida might foreshadow a new era of battery-powered air travel long considered implausible.
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