This is literally a revolution and a transition in the making. Could we be witnessing a paradigm shift in aviation...? Here's a link to NASA's daily development page. A good page to bookmark... http://www.nasa.gov/langley/ten-engine-electric-plane-completes-successful-flight-test ***
Getting this thread off the ground again, I just came across a video of a multi-engine electric plane called "Cora" by Kitty Hawk Aviation, a company backed by Google's Larry Page...