You feel like a bird." Electric motors are much simpler than jet engines, too; they contain one-tenth as many parts. Furthermore, electric planes cost far less to fly, since electricity costs only ...

A new manufacturing centre for zero-emission aircraft technology is to built near Glasgow Airport. ZeroAvia said a facility to develop and manufacture hydrogen fuel cells for small electric planes ...

Image In addition to having no emissions, electric aircraft are designed to be simpler to operate and maintain than conventional helicopters and planes ... next year for a motor it has developed ...

On the left side of the plane was a standard engine, burning jet fuel. But on the right side was something radically different: an electric motor that got its power not from batteries, but from ...

He and Monnett outlined a more ambitious project: a genuine airplane, one that could stay aloft at least 20 minutes and, preferably, an hour and a half. Their electric motor, a small cylinder ...

Electric-powered aircraft may seem like a vague, future promise in the pursuit of decarbonizing aviation, but a handful of battery-powered planes are ... s because electric motors driving a ...

When the motors revved up, they sounded like electric grass trimmers. And when the plane flew overhead, the noise was more like a hum than a roar. Alice flew for eight minutes and reached a ...

Ten travel startups raised $245 million over the past three weeks. The deals were for electric planes, hotel tech, and ...