The X-57 will be long and skinny with six electric motors on each of the wings. The plane will be able to fly at 175 miles per hour, but will only have a range of 100 miles.
"We’re designing this airplane specifically for our test demonstration," Sean Clarke, NASA's principle investigator on the X-57 project, told Business Insider. "But for this tech to make its way to commercial, battery tech needs to improve."