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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #21 Electric Aviation: Meeting demand for low emission flight
Description: Norwegian airline Widerøe needs a new fleet of planes to serve its
regional passenger base. But it doesn’t want to buy conventional aircraft. It
wants a zero emission fleet to undertake its 450 flights per day, and move 2.8
million passengers per year. But so far, no electric planes have been certified
for commercial flight and Widerøe is calling on the industry to step up its
efforts and deliver aircraft with electric propulsion systems. In fact Norway
has set a target to electrify all of its aircraft by 2040 and the European
Union has committed to reducing carbon dioxide emis...