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Sydney Seaplanes will fully electrify its fleet of planes faster thanks to a $3 million government grant from the Albanese government, which spruiked the emerging electric aviation industry as a “game-changer for regional transport”.
The grant was awarded to Dovetail Electric Aviation, which operates Sydney Seaplanes, one of 19 startups and companies that received a slice of the $44 million in federal funding set aside for the Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) program.
Dovetail’s business operations executive Rachael Barritt tells SmartCompany the company will use the $3 million to bring its first retrofitted product to market within the next three years: an eCaravan.
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