Electric planes are silent, cheap to operate and would be a great solution to a lot of aviation's problems including air and noise pollution. And they seem to be on the cusp of going commercial. I flew in the first ever e-plane certified to take off to figure out whether we will all soon be flying electric.

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We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

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Credits:  
Reporter: Aditi Rajagopal
Video Editor: Henning Goll
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Supervising Editors: Michael Trobridge, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann
Fact-Check: Jeannette Cwienk
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Read more: 
All about electric aviation: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... and https://link.springer.com/article/10....

Forecast on hybrids:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Performance analysis on regional e-aircraft:
https://theicct.org/wp-content/upload...

Study on infrastructure needed for electric aviation (Heathrow): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Chapters: 
00:00 Introduction
01:08 Why electrify
03:20 Taking to the sky
04:05 The big battery problem
05:03 Re-design
06:19 Infrastructure changes
07:41 Other challenges
08:33 Where are e-planes?
09:40 Scale and conclusion