Consumers will regularly fly on electric airplanes within 15 years
Gregory Davis · The Electrification of Everything: From Sky to Sea · Jun 12, 2023 · at 50:32
Gregory Davis is the CEO of Eviation Aircraft, a company building all-electric commuter passenger planes.
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“And to the point of mass adoption, a hundred percent, I firmly believe in the next 10 to 15 years, we will all be flying regularly on electric airplanes.”
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