EasyJet is aiming to use electric planes to fly routes of about 500 kilometers within the decade. Through a partnership with a US electric plane startup, the low-cost carrier has hopes of adding an environmentally-friendly, lower-noise electric aircraft to its fleet by 2027. … [Read more...] about EasyJet wants to transport passengers on electric planes by 2027
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A powerful new battery could give us electric planes that don’t pollute
Brightly colored molecular models line two walls of Yet-Ming Chiang’s office at MIT. Chiang, a materials science professor and serial battery entrepreneur, has spent much of his career studying how slightly different arrangements of those sticks and spheres add up to radically … [Read more...] about A powerful new battery could give us electric planes that don’t pollute