The world's first electric passenger plane has successfully taken to the sky.

世界上第一架电动客机成功起飞。

The company aims to deliver electric planes for passenger and cargo use by 2027.

该公司的目标是在 2027 年前交付客运和货运用电动飞机。

So electric cars, electric planes, boats.

所以电动汽车、电动飞机、船只。

He says that hybrid and electric planes could come online relatively soon, at least for shorter routes.

他表示，混合动力和电动飞机可能很快就会投入使用，至少对于较短的航线来说是这样。

That's why electric planes aren't a thing: the best electric plane can only carry two people for about 1,000 kilometers on one charge,or its batteries would be too heavy to fly.

这就是电动飞机不受欢迎的原因：最好的电动飞机一次充电只能载两个人飞行约 1,000 公里，否则它的电池太重而无法飞行。

If all goes well, these could be in the air by 2028. Anders Forslund, Heart's boss, reckons that by 2050 all routes up to 1,500km could be served by electric planes.

如果一切顺利， 到 2028 年这些飞机可能会在空中飞行。Heart 的老板 Anders Forslund 估计， 到 2050 年， 所有长达 1,500 公里的航线都可以由电动飞机提供服务。

Heart Aerospace, a Swedish firm, plans to have a 30-seater plane with an all-electric range of 200km in the air by 2028. In September last year Eviation, an Israeli company, successfully tested a nine-seater electric plane with a range of 400km.

瑞典公司 Heart Aerospace 计划到 2028 年推出一款 30 座纯电动飞机， 空中航程可达 200 公里。 去年 9 月，以色列公司 Eviation 成功测试了一架 9 座电动飞机， 航程可达 200 公里。 400公里。