Sentence examples for electric planes from inspiring English sources

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.

Other startups, including Eviation Aircraft and Wright Electric, are also working to develop small electric planes for commuter-length flights.

As batteries improve, hybrid and electric planes can cut into a much bigger share of air transportation as well.

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.

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.