Battery-electric Cessna commuter plane makes 30-minute test flight
Hopes for one day powering commercial airplanes with electricity instead of fossil fuels
took a big leap forward this week
when a Cessna commuter propellor plane modified to run on electricity successfully completed a 30-minute test flight in central Washington.
Two Seattle-area companies were behind the feat:
MagniX, which designed the electric motor, and AeroTEC, an aerospace engineering and certification company that modified the plane.
They say it was the largest all-electric passenger or cargo aircraft ever to fly.
The test also follows a similar first flight in Vancouver in December of a seaplane powered by the same MagniX electric motor.
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