Alice, The First Electric Passenger Airplane, Takes Off

The first all-electric passenger plane has taken to the skies. Eviation Aircraft, an Israeli company founded in Israel, successfully launched the Alice from Washington‘s Grant County International Airport on Tuesday morning. For its inaugural flight, the zero-emission aircraft flew at 3,500 feet.

Gregory Davis, Eviation’s president and CEO stated that “This is history.” Since the conversion from the piston engine into the turbine engine, we haven’t seen the propulsion technology on an aircraft. This was the last time that you saw a completely new technology such as this in the 1950s.

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