Last December, a small seaplane soared over Vancouver, marking the world’s first electric commercial aircraft flight. For Harbour Air, it was a first step toward its goal of operating an all-electric, ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aircraft are some of the most complex vehicles out there, but the biggest problem for electrifying them is the battery weight. If ...

As convenient as flying may be, air travel is not great for the environment—by some estimates, commercial flights alone are responsible for 3 to 4 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions in the United ...

The Lilium Jet is a proposed eVTOL (electric Vertical Take Off and Landing) aircraft that the German company Lilium GmbH has claimed it will bring to the market ‘soon’, which would made it the first ...

Two-seater Velis Electros are already quietly buzzing around Europe, electric sea planes are being tested in British Columbia, and larger planes are coming. Air Canada announced on Sept. 15, 2022, ...

When a small white-and-red Cessna Grand Caravan plane took off from Moses Lake in Washington state on Thursday, it was flying into history. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...

CLIMATEWIRE | U.S. aviation company Textron Inc. announced last week that it will “accelerate” its development of an electric fleet, starting with the purchase of a Slovenian electric aircraft company ...

It's not every day aviation history is made, but June 2025 marked a real milestone for New York and the world of electric flight. For the first time, a passenger-carrying electric airplane landed at ...

Such is not the case, however, with the new Tornado Updraft 12. The remote-control aircraft comes in the form of an assemble-it-yourself kit, and is the result of a collaboration between US companies ...