Two years ago, aircraft designers were invited to build an electric airplane that could fly at least 200 miles (322 km) in under two hours, using less than one gallon (3.8 liters) of fuel per occupant ...

The growing urban air mobility (UAM) industry is developing electric airplanes and rotorcraft at a breakneck pace. While most companies develop just one aircraft at a time, Pipistrel is the rare ...

NASA handed over a check for $1.35 million, the largest prize in NASA’s history, to Pipistrel-USA.com‘s team leader Jack Langelaan in a ceremony at the Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, ...

NASA says it has awarded the largest prize in aviation history, $1.35 million, to Team Pipistrel-USA.com for pushing the envelope on electric-powered flying. To win the CAFE Green Flight Challenge, ...

Slovenian aircraft manufacturer Pipistrel is entering next month's NASA/CAFE Green Flight Challenge with an unusual electric airplane built in mere months specifically for the competition. The Taurus ...

Pipistrel just rolled out the world’s most powerful electric aircraft — and it’s the first to seat four people. The Taurus G4 required two years of preparation and development, but took just four ...

Lobo Leasing and Air Taurus Limited, the Irish Group affiliate of humanitarian logistics specialist AYR Logistics Limited (AYR), have entered into a letter of intent to lease five Pipistrel Nuuva V300 ...

Barely 20 years ago, Pipistrel was a virtual unknown in the aviation industry, a tiny Slovenian manufacturer of small ultralight aircraft. In June, the privately held company entered the history books ...

You're probably not going to live to see an electric 747 landing at O'Hare, but a growing number of aeronautical engineers believe electric airplanes are the future of general aviation. They may be ...