Your short flights could soon be battery powered Both Air Canada and United Airlines have orders for hybrid-electric airplanes. It's one way the aviation industry is trying to curb its emissions.

The EL9 aircraft boasts a hybrid-electric propulsion system with blown lift technology, enabling it to operate with ...

VoltAero has launched its final assembly facility and headquarters at Rochefort Airport in France, a significant milestone in ...

To give an idea of the limitations of battery power, the companies trying to make all-electric work generally limit their designs to smaller airplanes that travel fairly short distances.

Electra has revealed the design of its groundbreaking EL9 Ultra Short hybrid-electric product aircraft, a nine-passenger piloted aircraft built for the electric future that redefines air travel ...

Though the battery is not as powerful as today’s non-structural lithium-ion batteries, it makes up for it in the fact that it ...

A number of companies are developing electric airplanes ... promises to put a four-passenger plane into service as soon as 2025. Powered 100% by heavy batteries, packing about 1/40th as much ...

A French startup developer of hybrid-electric aircraft plans to build a 500,000-square-foot airplane factory along Florida’s Atlantic Coast — its first facility in the U.S. Aura Aero on ...

Electric aerospace company Beta Technologies said on Thursday it had raised more than $300 million in equity capital to support the continued production of its all-electric fixed-wing and eVTOL ...