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Ruth Wright

Booking an electric flight in Europe is only 10 years away, says influential Dutch researcher

The Netherlands is pushing the world towards electric flight faster than most European countries.

One of the world’s first battery-powered passenger planes is being built by Dutch start-up Elysian Aircraft. Development is well underway: “There will be six engines. And we have folding wingtips, so that we fit into the current gates’ infrastructure of the airports, because the wings are very large,” explains co-founder Daniel Jacobson.

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