electric airplanes Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 28 Sep 2017 09:20:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Electric Airplanes to Start Flying in a Decade, says EasyJet https://www.greenoptimistic.com/electric-airplanes-easyjet-20170928/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/electric-airplanes-easyjet-20170928/#respond Thu, 28 Sep 2017 08:53:54 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=64498 Aviation plays an important role in global economy – tourism, official business travels, importation and exportation of goods. However, it is also a significant contributor to air pollution that even with the utmost effort of improving aerodynamics, greenhouse gas emissions are still unmanageable because of the unprecedented increase in travels by air. The efforts for […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/electric-airplanes-easyjet-20170928/feed/ 0 64498 Volta Volare GT4 – The Plug-In Hybrid Plane That Eliminates Range Anxiety https://www.greenoptimistic.com/volta-volare-gt4-hybrid-plane-20120507/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/volta-volare-gt4-hybrid-plane-20120507/#respond Mon, 07 May 2012 16:11:04 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=24354 If electric vehicles sound scary (because of range anxiety), how do electric planes sound? Being stranded on the ground is nothing compared to getting stranded in the sky! But have no fear, the GT4 is here! More precisely, the Volta Volare GT4 from an aeronautics company in Portland, Oregon is a plug-in hybrid plane to […]

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