Narrator: What could a future with electric planes look like? $25 tickets, quieter airports, or even shorter runways. Companies have been betting on battery-powered planes for this cleaner future.

Instead, the plane used an all-electric motor powered by a single battery. Called the e-Genius and built by engineers at the University of Stuttgart, the most remarkable thing about this all ...

It seems unlikely that we will see electric planes flying to New York any time soon, or even Paris – batteries store far less ...

A flight school headquartered at Brainard Airport has announced that it is the first in the nation to offer flight training ...

Making air travel electric throws up many challenges, with the biggest one being that the batteries needed to power long-haul flights would need to be so heavy that the plane would never get off ...

Narrator: In electric cars, a battery's weight isn ... The bigger the battery, the more power for the plane, but a bigger battery also means more weight to lift, so more power is needed to get ...

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The electric plane can do everything a conventional gas-powered plane can do, but it's quieter and better for the environment ...

Electric RC aircraft are not known for long ... out of the water with a 10 hour 45 minute flight with an RC plane on battery power. Condensed video after the break. Flight stats right before ...

The scientists say the next step is to improve the performance even more, replacing aluminum foil in the electrode with ...

German electric plane pioneer Lilium has found an investor ... which has developed an electrically powered vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) mini aircraft over the past 10 years.