Electric Planes News Today

Miguel Iturmendi, the chief engineer and test pilot for Helios Horizon, wants to prove electric planes can rival traditional planes.

Octopus Electroverse announces tie-up with aircraft charging network AeroVolt

"Project Louis is in early-stage development of a hybrid electric two seat plane for training and are planning for commercial use additional models."

Air Canada, United Airlines, and Bill Gates' venture capital fund Breakthrough Energy Ventures take part in series B fundraise

The apocalyptic news cycle of the past month yielded few bright spots. While war and genocide have rightly dominated the headlines, the climate news too has been dark, with huge wind projects in the United States falling through, most retcently in Cape Cod and New Jersey. But one development stood out, reminding us that the future could be better, more inventive, and even beautiful. Electric planes, The New York Times recently reported, in a full-page feature accompanied by photos of delightfull

One With the Plane Pilot Chris Caputo recently took an electric airplane dubbed CX300, a sleek, futuristic six-seater built by his Vermont-based employer Beta Technologies, for an epic joyride down the East Coast to deliver it to the Air Force for testing. But it wasn't the nearly two dozen stops for recharging over 16 days […]

For most of aviation history, electric aircraft have been little more than a fantasy. But technological advancements, particularly in batteries, and billions of dollars of investment have helped make short-distance electric air travel feasible -- and, its backers hope, commercially viable.

US News: Beta Technologies, a Vermont-based company, recently completed a 16-day journey down the East Coast of the United States in its battery-powered aircra

A third of flights in the US are less than 250 miles - which is already within range for electric planes

The same Ohio river valley where the Wright brothers pioneered human flight will soon be manufacturing cutting-edge electric planes