Sentence examples for electric plane from inspiring English sources

The maker of the solar-powered Sun Flyer electric plane says it uses just $1 of electricity for each hour of flying time, compared to $40/hour for a fossil-fuel powered light aircraft.

The Antares 20E is thought to be the first fully certified and commercially produced electric plane.

What makes this particular electric plane stand out is that is made by the Airbus group.

Airbus's electric plane successfully completed a flight from the UK to France on Friday morning.

Tech billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that he wants to build a fully electric plane.

The lithium-polymer batteries, for example, were donated by Tian Yu, a Chinese businessman with whom Mr Raymond is collaborating on a non-solar electric plane.

Mr Yu was inspired by radio-controlled electric planes.

Better batteries would transform the endurance of electric planes, as with electric cars.

Hybrid electric planes could even recover energy when descending to recharge their batteries, like regenerative braking in electric cars.

The European aerospace giant is serious enough about electric flight to have set up a subsidiary called Voltair to build electric planes at Bordeaux in France.

Several companies in different countries have been trying to develop electric planes in the hope of offering fuel-, emissions- and noise-free flights in the future.