FILE PHOTO: A Rolls-Royce logo is seen at the company's aerospace engineering and development site in Bristol, Britain, December 17, 2015. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo
Growing concerns about climate change plus the recent spread of the “flight-shaming” movement on social media, and a promise by the aviation industry to cut carbon emissions, has made airlines hungry for progress on electric flying technology. Rolls-Royce unveiled the electric plane, which it is building with partners YASA and Electroflight and others and which will target a speed of over 300 miles per hour, at a hangar in Gloucestershire, western England.
Named ACCEL, the 6.5 million pound project will have the most power-dense battery pack ever assembled for an aircraft, Rolls-Royce said, providing enough fuel to fly 200 miles , or the distance between London and Paris, on a single charge.
FlightShaming ?! Ludicrous...now CruiseShips - talk about EXCESS & WASTE...
For what it actually looks like:
i here it will hold a charge almost long enough to land
Sir Charlie Rolls would be so chuffed!