What an airshow! After 6 years, Warbirds Over Wanaka (yes, WOW), returned with an epic show. This year included a Future of Flight hangar including Rocket Lab, Kea Aerospace, Jet packs and of course, New Zealand’s first electric plane.

Hayden Paddon brought his electric rally car for a race with a difference - against our electric plane. A great way to demonstrate the best of electric road and air technology.

Stuff article - NZ aviation emissions and electric aviation

Jeremy Wells and Matt Heath interview ElectricAir Founder and CEO, Gary Freedman.

We’ve had a ton of media about our record breaking flight across the Cook Strait. Here are some links…

Our Pipistrel Electro “Rerengo Hiko” just spend 10 fantastic days with the Kapiti District Aero Club. The Club was inundated with enquiries and booking for a flight in NZ’s first and only electric plane. And there was such a long waiting list, that we couldn’t get everyone up. However, we did fly every day, 10 out of 10. A total of 57 people experienced electric flight. In fact, despite a terrible winter forecast and the shortest week of the year (winter solstice), ZK-EAL flew more time and more hours than any other petrol plane at Kapiti, proving it is a truly useful training aircraft. And it managed all those flights on pure electrons. Not a drop of dinosaur juice was gobbled up.

We’ll be flying NZ's favourite (and only) electric plane from Kapiti Coast Airport with our friends from Kapiti Aero Club from 11 to 20 June 2021.

Contact Kapiti Aero Club if you’d like to book a flight.

We asked the public to help us name the first electric plane in New Zealand... and we received some fantastic ideas. The winning name was "Rerenga Hiko", te reo Maori for "Flying Electric".

The winning prize was a flight in the unique aircraft. As you can see, Dianne loved it. The electric plane is available for flight training and trial flights from Christchurch and Rangiora, NZ.

Watch the video here!

Recording a podcast from an electric plane in New Zealand is a first. Theo Gibson from The EV Podcast came along to Christchurch Airport with a microphone and camera and we went for a fly and had a great chat from 1,000ft above the Canterbury scenery on a lovely, sunny day. Flying on pure electrons means it was quiet and guilt-free. Click here to watch the video.

8th March 2021 is #internationalwomensday We need to get more women into aviation. If you're in #NZ and book a trial flight with us today (and you're a women), we'll give you $50 bucks off. https://electricair.nz/shop/p/womensday

We chat with the super smart folks at SpaceBase about renewable energy development, electrification and why it’s so important AND fun to fly in an electric aircraft.

We had a great visit from a couple of clever young reporters along with the Kea Kids team. It was a pleasure to answer their questions. When our kids grow up hopefully they’ll be flying in fully electric planes as standard. Their generation can truly ditch the oil.

Christchurch Mayor Lianne Dalziel at launch of ElectricAir’s Pipistrel Alpha Electro at Christchurch Airport 30 October 2020.

New Zealand’s first electric plane is being officially launched today by Christchurch start-up ElectricAir.

The plane is a battery electric two-seat light sport aircraft manufactured by Slovenian aircraft company Pipistrel and has begun demonstration flights from Christchurch. Designed as a training aircraft, it will be available for people wanting to experience electric flight and learn to fly in a more sustainable way.

We sat down with RadioNZ’s Kathryn Ryan to talk about ElectricAir’s journey to launch New Zealand’s first electric plane.

We were privileged to take Tony Lyall from TV3’s THE PROJECT up in the air.

EVPodcast with Gary Freedman - Lockdown Special - April 2020

A thanks to Dominic Harris from Stuff.co.nz for covering the story of bringing the first electric plane to NZ.