New podcast episode: this airline is going electric w/Andreas Aks (Widerøe)

Although Widerøe may be little known outside of home country, the oldest airline in Norway is preparing to become a world leader…in electric flight!

Norway was the first country to set a deadline to decarbonize aviation (by 2040 all domestic flights in Norway should be fossil free) and Widerøe has not shied away from getting involved in the pursuit of this goal. The Norwegian airline soon realized that most of its network, that links small communities scattered throughout this very mountainous country by making short hops in small regional aircraft, was ideal for electrification.

Widerøe has proactively got involved in the research and development of electric aircraft technologies through its partnerships with Rolls-Royce and Tecnam to develop a regional electric aircraft, as well as with Embraer’s EVE to explore the roll-out of eVTOLs in Scandinavia. It has also set up Widerøe Zero, an accelerator to evaluate and invest in the new promising technologies that should help commercial aviation achieve the fossil free goal.

Widerøe head of strategy, Andreas Kollbye Aks was on the podcast to explain all of this in more detail.

Tune in to listen to our chat about the future of fossil free aviation in Norway and how Widerøe could be an inspiration for other airlines around the world in the quest to decarbonize.

“Wideroe, the Norwegian airline going electric, with Andreas Aks”