A start-up at the Indian Institute of Techmology-Madras that developed an e-plane has received approval from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation to scale up the model. It had developed a prototype of the e-plane and demonstrated it on the campus.
Institute director V. Kamakoti announced the approval on the sidelines of an event held on Wednesday to distribute certificates to 15 research teams chosen as Centres of Excellence (CoE).
It would take several years for other approvals before e-plane could become a commercial product, he said.
