{"id":131050,"date":"2021-11-21T23:27:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T07:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/rolls-royce-claims-its-all-electric-plane-is-worlds-fastest"},"modified":"2021-11-21T23:27:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T07:27:23","slug":"rolls-royce-claims-its-all-electric-plane-is-worlds-fastest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/rolls-royce-claims-its-all-electric-plane-is-worlds-fastest","title":{"rendered":"Rolls-Royce Claims Its All-Electric Plane Is World\u2019s Fastest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rolls-royce-claims-its-all-electric-plane-is-worlds-fastest2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a recent <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rolls-royce.com\/media\/press-releases\/2021\/19-11-2021-spirit-of-innovation-stakes-claim-to-be-the-worlds-fastest-all-electric-vehicle.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news release<\/a> 0, the company, not to be mistaken for the car company owned by BMW, claimed that the Spirit of Innovation set three new world records earlier this week. On flight tests carried out on Nov. 16, Rolls-Royce said its aircraft reached a top speed of 345.4 mph (555.9 km\/h) over 1.8 miles (3 kilometers), exceeding the current record by 132 mph (213 k\/h). It broke another record in a subsequent 9.3-mile (15 kilometer) flight, during which it reached 330 mph (532.1 km\/h), surpassing the current record by 182 mph (292.8 km\/h).<\/p>\n<p>The Spirit of Innovation didn\u2019t stop there, though. Rolls-Royce affirms that it smashed another record when it reached 9,842.5 feet (3,000 meters) in 202 seconds, beating the current record by 60 seconds. In the company\u2019s view, it also took the title of the world\u2019s fastest all-electric vehicle when it reached a maximum speed of 387.4 mph (623 km\/h) during its flight tests.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s aircraft is powered by a 400kW electric powertrain and \u201cthe most power-dense propulsion battery pack ever assembled in aerospace.\u201d It\u2019s part of the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rolls-royce.com\/innovation\/accel.aspx?utm_source=pressrelease&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=ACCEL&utm_term=Organic&utm_content=Firstflight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Accelerating the Electrification of Flight project<\/a> 0, which receives half of its funding from the UK government and the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ati.org.uk\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aerospace Technology Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent news release 0, the company, not to be mistaken for the car company owned by BMW, claimed that the Spirit of Innovation set three new world records earlier this week. On flight tests carried out on Nov. 16, Rolls-Royce said its aircraft reached a top speed of 345.4 mph (555.9 km\/h) over [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}