The world's largest floatplane-only airline says it will be the first electrically powered airline and will convert its entire fleet of 41 vintage de Havilland Beaver, Otter and Twin Otter aircraft and one Cessna Caravan to electric motors. Harbour Air, which is based in Vancouver, Canada, runs daily scheduled service between Seattle and Vancouver and to various cities on B.C.'s west coast and Vancouver Island. It flies about 500,000 passengers a year. "If you think about it, it's the evolution of transportation toward electric propulsion," founder and CEO Greg McDougall told the Vancouver Sun. "The internal combustion engine is all but obsolete, really, for future development. It's all about electric."
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