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Travel DestinationsWhile Montréal’s most famous paths could lie underground, it is most intriguing routes in the upcoming hotter months lie amongst its 2,400 miles of motorbike trails and paths. The first North American city to adopt a bicycle-sharing program, Montréal has a number of well-liked rides, together with alongside the Lachine Canal, the quays of the Old Port, and Rue McGill. In addition to paths throughout the metropolis, Montréal lies within the centre of the Route Verte, a sequence of bikeways all through Quebec modelled after Denmark’s national cycle routes and the Danube and Rhine bikeways. The route, which begins further west at Fort-Coulogne, additionally connects Montréal with Québec City to the north.

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Electric aircraft and batteries – an insurmountable problem?

The excellent MIT Technology Review has a piece casting doubt on the ability of battery-electric aircraft, such as the ES-19 developed by Heart Aerospace, to fly for any significant amount of time.

The reason is due to the same issue identified again and again – the battery weight / power problem.

According to analyst  Jayant Mukhopadhaya from the International Council for Clean Transportation (ICCT), “We were surprised by how terrible the range was, frankly.”

In fact, it was as recently as 2020 that the first electric aircraft was certified by EASA.

This is the Pipistrel Veilis Electro, which has room for one passenger and can fly for about 50 minutes.  As a result, it would seem reasonable to question whether 19 seat electric commuter aircraft really will be flying by 2026.

However there are a number of points that can be made in response.

First of all, battery technology

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Ad regulator rules against Austrian over ‘CO2 neutral’ ads

Here’s another watch-out for airlines when running campaigns that talk about them being ‘green’ or ‘carbon neutral’.

Austrian Airlines was on the receiving end of a complaint around ads promoting flights from Vienna to Venice at the time of the Biennale festival.

These gave the passenger the option of offsetting flights to Venice with the purchase of SAF, and to receive free public transport tickets and entrance to the Biennale in exchange.

The complaint made by an academic and climate change activist to the Austrian advertising regulator (English original version here), said that Austrian’s SAF comes from biofuels, which aren’t 100% carbon neutral, instead there is likely to be an 80% reduction.

The complaint went on to say:

“The consumer doesn’t understand a) what SAF is; b) what the net saving potential of SAF is; and c) what 100% SAF means. Therefore, the average consumer might easily think

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