Collaboration with Airbus and Siemens on E-Fan X project could result in a partly UK-built hybrid electric plane flying by 2020A partly British-built hybrid electric plane could be flying by 2020 as the result of a collaboration between Airbus,Siemens and Rolls-Royce.
The manufacturers will convert a short-haul passenger jet, paving the way to making commercial air travel running partly on electricity a reality.
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Source: guardian.co.uk