Electric air travel may be here sooner than expected with Rolls-Royce’s first electric plane

    Spirit of Innovation, Rolls-Royce’s first electric plane, is finally ready for the skies. The first flight of Rolls-Royce’s revolutionary Spirit of Innovation electric aircraft signals a huge step forward in the global transition to cleaner forms of flight. The plane took to the skies propelled by its powerful 400kW (500+hp) electric powertrain with … Read more

Europe and the ‘why me?’ approach to decarbonisation

A slowdown in the EU’s pace of climate action may inspire unintended reciprocal measures in the runup to the 2015 global climate summit in Paris