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8 - Electric Planes as a new sustainable Transport Category

8 - Electric Planes as a new sustainable Transport Category

Update: 2025-08-26
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S1E8 - We speak with Professor Maarten Steinbuch about the rise of electric planes. Electric planes have a huge potential to replace short haul flight and revolutionize the aviation sector. Something that was hard to imagine 20 years ago is coming within hand reach.


Maarten is a distinguished professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology. He has a very good eye for the influence that technology has on the world of tomorrow. For instance, he was one of the first to see the potential of electric vehicles and promoted this extensively in the media.  


In recent years Maarten has talked about the next big transport revolution: short haul electric flying. Also, he has worked on making regional airports into energy hubs with his company NRG2FLY. Can we undo the bad rep that airplanes suffer and fly guild free again? Let's see what Maarten has to say about this. 

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8 - Electric Planes as a new sustainable Transport Category

8 - Electric Planes as a new sustainable Transport Category

Auke Hoekstra and Michiel van Lelyveld