Elektra One Electric Plane's First Flight a Success! (w/Vid)

treehugger.com — The Elektra One plane by PC-Aero is competing to win NASA's CAFE Green Flight Challenge (there's a 1.6 million dollar prize). The goal is to create an aircraft that can "fly 200 miles in less than two hours using the energy equivalent of less than 1 gallon of gasoline per occupant." The Elektra One is 100% powered by electricity, and it recently had a successful maiden flight in Germany! Mar 29, 2011 View in Crawl 4