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Evening Standard
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Simon Hunt

Globetrotters go green: Rolls-Royce strikes deal to turn private jets electric

A mock-up of Rolls-Royce’s ‘vertiports’

(Picture: Rolls-Royce)

Rolls-Royce has announced a partnership with private jet charterer Luxaviation to help develop a new fleet of electric passenger planes.

The British aerospace business will build charging points and provide maintenance services for electric planes, to be stationed at a number of planned ‘vertiports’ – airports for vertical take-off flights.

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