Norway Wants to Fly Electric Airplanes for All Short-haul Flights by 2040

We may yet be a long mode away from the day when all cars run on surroundings friendly fuel, merely that isn't stopping one Scandinavian country from promising that all short-haul flights within its territory will be entirely electrical by the yr 2040. This was announced this week by Kingdom of norway'southward Country-owned air transport operator Avinor. The company is said to operate most of the civil airports in the country, including the Oslo International Aerodrome.

In an interview to AFP, Dag Falk-Petersen, the principal executive of Avinor, said that the plans are a office of the company's efforts to become the "first in the world" to switch to electrical air transport. He also said that "all flights lasting upwardly to 1.v hours tin can be flown by aircraft that are entirely electrical". The company is reportedly in the planning stages to launch a tender for a small xix-seater electric airplane that will be flown on a commercial road from 2025 on an experimental basis.

Norway'southward relationship with fuel is a paradox unto itself. The company is the largest oil and gas producer in western Europe, but still patronizes clean fuel with gusto, running more electric cars per-capita than whatsoever other country in the world. According to a recent study by 'The Guardian', near a third of all new cars sold in the country last year was either fully electric or a hybrid, with the number slated to ascension by as much as 40% this year. The country also expects to become the earth's "get-go fully electric society past 2050", according to Oluf Ulseth, the director of energy think tank Energi Norge.