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Welcome to Cool Stuff Ride Home. I'm Redgerizu alongside Marcus Paff. On today's episode, the first

battery-powered planes are tested to improve global emissions emitted from aircrafts.

Plus, on this day in history, the first female senator is appointed, but only serves for 24 hours.

We'll explain. That's coming up on cool stuff.

We open this Thursday episode with a story from BBC Science Focus and author Ian Taylor examining the prospect of electric aircraft.

The future of human flight arrived quietly at a time when no one was clocking up air miles.

It was June of 2020, of course, and the skies were unusually empty as the world reeled the speed of the COVID-19 outbreak.

But down on the ground, something

big was happening with a very small aircraft. EASA, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency,

certified a two-seater plane made in Slovenia as safe to fly. Within a few years, it was certified

by equivalent bodies in the UK, the U.S., and elsewhere.

The Pippistrelle Velas Electro became the first fully certified electric aircraft in the world,

and to this day it is still the only one.

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