BETA Technologies has successfully completed its first all-electric small aircraft demonstration flight at John F. Kennedy ...

Kyle Clark, the pilot and CEO behind BETA Technologies, envisions his ALIA aircraft landing on rooftops and being used for short-hop flights across New York City.

A startup working on hybrid-electric aircraft aims to cut down on both aircraft noise and the space small planes need to ... On the civil side, the EL9 can replace noisy jets or helicopters ...

Beta Technologies became the first U.S. company to land an all-electric aircraft at an airport in the New York-New Jersey ...

History was made last Saturday when the first-ever coast-to-coast flight by an all-electric aircraft ... side,” Caputo said. This impressive aeronautical accomplishment represents just another ...

“The key take-home from this study is that small electric ... As with electric cars, the electric aircraft is comparatively worse from a climate point of view when the plane is brand new since ...

The first electric aircraft are already in operation today and are mainly small planes used for pilot ... worse from a climate point of view when the plane is brand new, since the production ...

Almost eight years ago, the ride sharing company Uber released a research paper laying out a futuristic vision of the world where people could hop into small, electric aircraft in the middle of ...

Having spent more than a century producing ever-larger aircraft, peaking with the giant ... a new phenomenon in which small electric vertical take-off and landing craft – eVTOLs, or air taxis ...

(For comparison, a fully loaded Cessna 172, a common small aircraft, generally needs about 960 feet of runway.) “Goldfinch has eight electric propellers along the wing’s leading edge that ...

"In my view the main bottleneck is still the energy source: current batteries are too heavy for the amount of energy they provide. This means that for now electric propulsion is only viable for small ...