An all-electric passenger aircraft completed its first 8-minute test flight on Tuesday. The nine-passenger prototype plane named Alice, built by startup Eviation, which claimed that the plane is “ushering in a new era of aviation.”
The aircraft was designed and built by the startup company, Eviation, in an attempt to show the potential for an electric commercial commuter aircraft that can fly a few hundred miles at an altitude of roughly 15,000 feet.
“Are the batteries on the prototype aircraft capable of propelling the certification aircraft, capable of providing sufficient energy? The answer is no, absolutely not,” Eviation CEO Greg Davis said, claiming that Alice is not the same design that the company plans on building later. Davis said his company needs still-to-be-developed advances in battery technology to make Eviation’s planes commercially viable.
“It’s really ushering in a new era of aviation,” Davis said. “This is the first radical change in aerospace propulsion technology, since we went from the Super Constellation to the 707, from the piston engine to the jet engine, and now to the electric motor.”, as Air Canada also announced this month that it has ordered 30 plug-in planes from the Swedish electric aircraft startup company, Heart Aerospace.
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