NOVA – S48 E10 : Great Electric Airplane Race

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Can new emission-free electric planes replace our polluting airliners and revolutionize personal transportation in our cities? NOVA takes you for a ride in some impressive prototypes that are already in the air, from speedy single-seat planes that can take off like a helicopter but are half as noisy to “self-flying” air taxis that are already taking passengers on test flights in Chinese cities. But if electric airplanes are ever to advance beyond small, short-haul craft, significant hurdles of battery weight, energy storage, and cooling remain to be overcome. How long will it be before the dream of super-quiet, super-efficient airliners becomes a reality?

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Cast

Sigourney Weaver
as Narrator
Harrison Ford
as Narrator
John Lithgow
as Narrator
Keith David
as Narrator
Stacy Keach
as Narrator
Susan Sarandon
as Narrator (voice)
John Hurt
as Narrator
Liev Schreiber
as Narrator (voice)
Zachary Quinto
as Narrator
F. Murray Abraham
as Narrator
Oliver Platt
as Narrator
Rebecca De Mornay
as Narrator
Héctor Elizondo
as Narrator
Shirley Henderson
as Mileva Maric
Roy Scheider
as Narrator
Samuel West
as Humphry Davy
Joe Morton
as Narrator
Stockard Channing
as Narrator (voice)
Jim Carter
as Narrator
Derek Jacobi
as Voice of Ernest Shackleton
Frances O'Connor
as Emma Darwin
Simon Callow
as Galileo
Jay O. Sanders
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Courtney B. Vance
as Narrator
Brian Greene
as Host
Ian Holm
as Narrator (voice)
Anton Lesser
as Voltaire
Sally Kellerman
as Narrator
Scott Handy
as Isaac Newton
Corey Johnson
as Narrator
Julian Rhind-Tutt
as Antoine Lavoisier
David Ogden Stiers
as Narrator
David Attenborough
as Narrator
Henry Ian Cusick
as Charles Darwin
Aidan McArdle
as Albert Einstein
Craig Sechler
as Narrator
John Benjamin Hickey
as Narrator
Tony Robinson
as Younger Ernie
Joseph Campanella
as Narrator (voice)
Neil Ross
as Narrator
Nigel Bennett
as Sir Charles Lyell
Darri Ingolfsson
as Godfred Hansen
Carl Sagan
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
as Percy Julian
Steven Robertson
as Michael Faraday
Eric Meyers
as Narrator

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