RollsRoyce’s electric plane called  ‘Sprit of Innovation’  beat the existing speed record for electric planes by 132mph – hitting a top-speed of 387.4mph during a 1.9 mile flight over Boscombe Down last week. It also broke, by 60 seconds, the fastest record time to climb to 3,000 metres by doing it in 202 seconds. ‘Following the ...

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