Rolls-Royce's high-speed, all-electric Spirit of Innovation aircraft has flown for the first time. On September 15, the speedster prop plane took off from the UK Ministry of Defence’s Boscombe ...

Rolls-Royce says the sleek, blue-nosed airplane’s 400 kW electric powertrain, including 6,000 battery cells, is “the most power-dense propulsion battery pack ever assembled in aerospace.” ...

Spirit of Innovation also captured another important aviation record with the fastest climb to 3000 meters, taking a total of 202 seconds. Rolls-Royce broke the previous record for the fastest ...

This is the Rolls-Royce ‘Spirit of Innovation’, an electric aircraft that has claimed three new world records and clocked up a top speed of 387.4mph, which RR reckons makes it the world's ...

We first caught wind of the Spirit of Innovation plane back in 2019, when Rolls-Royce announced the concept along with its plans to top the previous speed record for an electric plane – 210 mph ...

Although the initiative aims to take the Spirit of Innovation to a record-breaking speed of over 300mph (260kt/480km/h), Rolls-Royce also sees it as a means of developing and maturing advanced ...

Rolls-Royce hopes that its Spirit of Innovation has claimed three world speed records for an electric aircraft following several runs conducted on 16 November.

In addition to the three records submitted to the FAI, Rolls-Royce also claims to have clocked its Spirit of Innovation at a max speed of 623 km/h (387.4 mph) during one of its runs.

Rolls-Royce electric plane, Spirit of Innovation, completes its latest flight test. The company now enhancing it to achieve 300 miles-per-hour speed.

Rolls-Royce reaffirmed its commitment to the UN Race to Zero campaign by developing all its new products to have net-zero emissions by 2030, with all products reaching net-zero by 2050.

Rolls-Royce announced that its all-electric airplane, called Spirit of Innovation, officially became the world’s fastest all-electric aircraft. Two new records set on November 16th were verified ...

During its runs, the Rolls-Royce “Spirit of Innovation” aircraft registered a maximum speed of 623 km/h (387.4 mph), a speed the automaker believes is the world’s fastest for an all-electric ...