United Airlines Holdings Inc. and a regional airline partner are hoping to use a new electric plane to revitalize short-haul flying.
United’s venture fund and Mesa Air Group Inc. are investing in Heart Aerospace, a Swedish company developing a 19-seat electric aircraft. Tuesday’s deal is the latest in a series of bets on new aircraft concepts yet to be tested but that United said could help it reduce carbon emissions. Each airline has agreed to order 100 of the planes, once they have been built, as long as the final product meets the airlines’ specifications.
United and Mesa have previously announced plans to invest in Archer Aviation, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based company that is developing an electric flying taxi, and
This plain can’t make Vegas to la lol
sacca 2026? 🤦🏻♂️ How can we fast track it? Can the technology be open-sourced? Wonder what it takes to build electric flying cars or electric aeroplanes? We need to build a stack of alacarte suppliers to enable procurement of everything needed to change the current infrastructure.
Do they have to be short haul because that’s all the cord they have?
Where is the USA with regard to ELECRIC plane engines?
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