Would you trust a plane run on batteries? This start-up wants to use electric planes for flights under 300 miles

Nervous flyers will be losing quite a lot of sleep over the latest aviation invention – a battery-operated plane.

The aircraft manufacturer Wright Electric has revealed its plans for a 150-seater plane that is run on electricity.

The start-up company’s first plane is an airliner designed for short-haul flights like New York-Boston, London-Paris, and Seoul-Jeju.

That’s because the team believes that flights under 300 miles work best with battery power.

In order to make the plan work though, they need batteries to improve.

According to a on their site, if batteries don’t get dramatically better in the next decade, they will design their plane as a hybrid with electric motors, like a Volt.

But if batteries do get a lot better in the next decade, their plane will be fully-electric, which they say will make fantastic cost savings.

While they are expecting the improvements to batteries to take at least ten years, the company has already attracted the attention of a huge airline.

According to reports, EasyJet has already got in contact to discuss a potential partnership.