The French company Airbus has made a new electric plane-the E-Fan. The E-Fan 1.0 is an all-electrical plane. Good things about an electric plane- less noise, less vibration and less pollution. The E-Fan has completed the first-ever full electric flight over the Channel. The E-Bus was developed in only eight months, with help from many engineering schools. The E-Fan demonstrator made its first flight in 2014, and Airbus hopes that the E-Fan 2.0 will be done in 2017. The E-Fan 2.0 will have lithium-ion batteries to power the double electrical engines, and it will also have a thermal combustion engine in the rear cockpit, which will allow the plane to go farther. The E-Fan design has also won many awards.

Information taken from Airbus E-Fan website.