According to Jan Willem Heinen, co-founder and CEO of the Dutch start-up Maeve Aerospace, every form of transport will be electrified at some point in the future. "It's not a question of if it's going to be transformed, it's when," he told AIR International. Delft-based Maeve is working on a design for a fully electric regional passenger aircraft, the Maeve 01, which will generate no carbon dioxide or nitrous oxide emissions, produce 40 less noise than current regional aircraft and offer cheaper operating costs. Maeve's origins go back to September 2020, when the company began life as Venturi and its engineers embarked on an extensive electric aviation feasibility study. After closing a €250,000 seed investment in June 2021, followed by €3.4m in funding from a number of unnamed angel investors and a "large Dutch family office", the company was rebranded as Maeve in June 2022.
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