Electric aircraft

Electric aircraft - aircraft powered by electric motors as opposed to internal combustion engines. Article “Electric aircraft” in English Wikipedia has 96.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 176 references and 26 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Electric aircraft” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Electric aircraft”, its content was written by 292 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 670 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 670 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2096 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #7569 in April 2021
• Global: #14371 in December 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #29013 in July 2016
• Global: #45304 in July 2016

There are 24 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Electric aircraft		96.4153
2	Estonian (et) Elektriline õhusõiduk		93.5619
3	Hebrew (he) מטוס חשמלי		93.5047
4	French (fr) Avion électrique		81.1404
5	German (de) Elektroflugzeug		58.2082
6	Croatian (hr) Električna letjelica		48.2049
7	Dutch (nl) Elektrisch vliegtuig		44.1259
8	Japanese (ja) 電動航空機		43.4383
9	Russian (ru) Электросамолёт		40.155
10	Catalan (ca) Aeronau elèctrica		39.379

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Electric aircraft" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Electric aircraft		2 162 893
2	German (de) Elektroflugzeug		208 732
3	French (fr) Avion électrique		114 039
4	Russian (ru) Электросамолёт		94 541
5	Japanese (ja) 電動航空機		85 900
6	Spanish (es) Aeronave eléctrica		80 902
7	Dutch (nl) Elektrisch vliegtuig		36 713
8	Portuguese (pt) Avião elétrico		31 130
9	Chinese (zh) 電動飛機		26 643
10	Arabic (ar) طائرة كهربائية		24 036

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Electric aircraft" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Electric aircraft		6 570
2	Japanese (ja) 電動航空機		902
3	French (fr) Avion électrique		765
4	German (de) Elektroflugzeug		691
5	Russian (ru) Электросамолёт		421
6	Spanish (es) Aeronave eléctrica		251
7	Chinese (zh) 電動飛機		244
8	Dutch (nl) Elektrisch vliegtuig		201
9	Portuguese (pt) Avião elétrico		114
10	Turkish (tr) Elektrikli uçak		94

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Electric aircraft" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Electric aircraft		292
2	German (de) Elektroflugzeug		109
3	French (fr) Avion électrique		71
4	Russian (ru) Электросамолёт		24
5	Spanish (es) Aeronave eléctrica		23
6	Dutch (nl) Elektrisch vliegtuig		22
7	Japanese (ja) 電動航空機		19
8	Hebrew (he) מטוס חשמלי		16
9	Estonian (et) Elektriline õhusõiduk		11
10	Chinese (zh) 電動飛機		10

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Electric aircraft" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Electric aircraft		3
2	French (fr) Avion électrique		3
3	German (de) Elektroflugzeug		2
4	Japanese (ja) 電動航空機		2
5	Arabic (ar) طائرة كهربائية		0
6	Catalan (ca) Aeronau elèctrica		0
7	Greek (el) Ηλεκτροκίνητο αεροσκάφος		0
8	Spanish (es) Aeronave eléctrica		0
9	Estonian (et) Elektriline õhusõiduk		0
10	Persian (fa) هواپیمای الکتریکی		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Electric aircraft" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Electric aircraft		670
2	Portuguese (pt) Avião elétrico		482
3	French (fr) Avion électrique		236
4	Japanese (ja) 電動航空機		111
5	Hebrew (he) מטוס חשמלי		110
6	Persian (fa) هواپیمای الکتریکی		88
7	Chinese (zh) 電動飛機		66
8	Arabic (ar) طائرة كهربائية		56
9	German (de) Elektroflugzeug		52
10	Russian (ru) Электросамолёт		50

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic طائرة كهربائية
ca	Catalan Aeronau elèctrica
de	German Elektroflugzeug
el	Greek Ηλεκτροκίνητο αεροσκάφος
en	English Electric aircraft
es	Spanish Aeronave eléctrica
et	Estonian Elektriline õhusõiduk
fa	Persian هواپیمای الکتریکی
fi	Finnish Sähkölentokone
fr	French Avion électrique
he	Hebrew מטוס חשמלי
hr	Croatian Električna letjelica
id	Indonesian Pesawat terbang listrik
ja	Japanese 電動航空機
ko	Korean 전동항공기
nl	Dutch Elektrisch vliegtuig
no	Norwegian Elektrisk fly
pt	Portuguese Avião elétrico
ro	Romanian Aeronavă electrică
ru	Russian Электросамолёт
sl	Slovenian Električno letalo
tr	Turkish Elektrikli uçak
uk	Ukrainian Літак на сонячній енергії
zh	Chinese 電動飛機

Best Rank

English: #29013 07.2016

Global: #45304 07.2016

Best Rank

English: #7569 04.2021

Global: #14371 12.2017

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