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Dutch Researchers See First Nine-seat Electric Aircraft in Scheduled Service by 2026
The Netherlands has set a goal to fully electrify short-haul scheduled air services by 2050.

A study recently presented by Dutch researchers NACO/Royal HaskoningDHV and Royal NLR to the Netherlands’s House of Representatives concluded that the first nine-passenger electric aircraft could reach the short-haul AAM market by 2026, with the potential for larger 19-seaters to follow. The Netherlands has set a goal to fully electrify short-haul scheduled air services by 2050.

According to the study's authors, if policies remain unchanged, the share of global CO2 emissions from aviation could increase from 2 percent to more than 20 percent by 2050.