Two years ago, aircraft designers were invited to build an electric airplane that could fly at least 200 miles (322 km) in under two hours, using less than one gallon (3.8 liters) of fuel per occupant ...

NASA says it has awarded the largest prize in aviation history, $1.35 million, to Team Pipistrel-USA.com for pushing the envelope on electric-powered flying. To win the CAFE Green Flight Challenge, ...

NASA handed over a check for $1.35 million, the largest prize in NASA’s history, to Pipistrel-USA.com‘s team leader Jack Langelaan in a ceremony at the Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, ...

The growing urban air mobility (UAM) industry is developing electric airplanes and rotorcraft at a breakneck pace. While most companies develop just one aircraft at a time, Pipistrel is the rare ...

Liaoning General Aviation Academy hopes to sell 100 two passenger electric planes within three years. They plan to build a dedicated manufacturing plant that can make 100 a year in Shenyang. It will ...

Lobo Leasing and Air Taurus Limited, the Irish Group affiliate of humanitarian logistics specialist AYR Logistics Limited (AYR), have entered into a letter of intent to lease five Pipistrel Nuuva V300 ...

Pipistrel just rolled out the world’s most powerful electric aircraft — and it’s the first to seat four people. The Taurus G4 required two years of preparation and development, but took just four ...

You're probably not going to live to see an electric 747 landing at O'Hare, but a growing number of aeronautical engineers believe electric airplanes are the future of general aviation. They may be ...

Barely 20 years ago, Pipistrel was a virtual unknown in the aviation industry, a tiny Slovenian manufacturer of small ultralight aircraft. In June, the privately held company entered the history books ...

Nasa has awarded biggest prize in aviation history to an electric plane after its team designed a craft that flew 200miles in two hours. The $1.35million prize was handed to the crew behind the Taurus ...

Logistics provider Air Taurus has entered into an agreement to lease five Pipistrel V300 hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles from Lobo Leasing, with plans to use the unmanned cargo ...