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Peek at the future: Electric plane cruises skies over Norway

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June 18th 2018
#821 of 2543 articles from the Special Report: Race Against Climate Change
electric aircraft, Olso Airport, Gardermoen, Norway,
A view of the first flight by an electric aircraft, at Olso Airport, in Gardermoen, Norway, on Monday, June 18, 2018. Photo by Gorm Kallestad/NTB scanpix via AP

Norway's transportation minister and the head of the Scandinavian country's airport operator took off Monday for a short flight ... aboard a Slovenian-made two-seater electric airplane.

Dag Falk-Petersen, head of Avinor, sat at the commands of the white Pipistrel Alpha Electro G2 while Ketil Solvik-Olsen sat in the passenger seat. They took off from a remote corner of Oslo Airport for a brief journey in the grey skies.

Norway aims to be 100 per cent electric by 2040 for all short-haul flights. Avinor, which is responsible for the country's 44 airports, has bought the electric aircraft used Monday.

The operator plans to launch a tender offer to test a commercial route flown with a small electric plane with 19 seats, starting in 2025.

June 18th 2018

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