There is also a 5 minute video on the same page ( after a 30 second commercial ) about the first commercial electric airliner: "Alice".  The future of commercial electric aviation in the U.S. is the future of short hop aviation that will service areas previously uneconomical to service with expensive turboprop jet or standard jet aviation craft that cost many times more per hour to operate than do the proposed electric commercial airplanes.

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