Narrator: In electric cars, a battery's weight ... In normal airplanes, an estimated 30% of the plane's maximum takeoff weight is jet fuel. And that weight lessens over time, as jet fuel is ...

After years of hype, electric planes have largely failed to get off the ground, with startups collapsing and existing ...

These days, it’s mostly limited to light, two-seat airplanes often used as trainers ... an aircraft is not as simple as an electric vehicle. Also, jet fuel’s greater energy density—estimated ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The world's first zero-emissions electric plane has taken off for the first time. Lilium flew a 2-seater prototype which they are hoping to develop into a 5-seater ...

But it’ll be several more decades before you can hop on a regional electric jet, though everyone believes it’s coming. Best of Robb Report Pipistrel is the pioneer electric plane-maker in the training ...

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Nimbus Aerospace, a Seattle-area aviation startup, has successfully completed a demonstrator flight of its planned design for an electric-powered business jet ... The plane took off, was airborne ...

Their vision was to build an electric plane to replace jet-fueled aircraft on regional flights. Preliminary tests put the range of the microliner at about 500km, said the company. In 2022 ...