Wednesday, 2 January 2019

Rolls-Royce looks to smash speed record with the world's fastest electric airplane

The electric aircraft will fly at over 300 mph (480 km/h)

A partnership led by Rolls-Royce is building an all-electric aircraft that may smash into the record books with a top speed of over 300 mph (480 km/h) – beating the previous record of 210 mph (338 km/h) set in 2017 by Siemens. Scheduled to fly in 2020, the zero-emission electric speedster is being developed as part of the Accelerating the Electrification of Flight (ACCEL) and is billed as a leader of the "third wave" of aviation.

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from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2CMqqQo

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