On Thursday 21 September, Erik Bergkvist MEP (S&D, Swedish) presented his draft own-initiative report on encouraging electric aviation to the European Parliament’s Committee on Transport and Tourism. The report was well received but elicited some reservations.
“This is happening now, we already have working electric airplanes; they are not that big, but development is happening really quickly”, enthused Mr Bergkvist. In the explanatory memorandum, he pointed out that one segment of...