Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2020 17:03:54 +0000
Rolls-Royce has decided that it wants to produce the fastest electric airplane in the sky. Furthermore, it’s beyond the concept or visualization phase. Rolls-Royce has tested the technology for this on what’s called an “ionBird,” which means “a full-scale replica of the plane’s core.”
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 16:28:15 +0000
ZeroAvia recently completed the first sustained flight of a 6 passenger aircraft powered by a hydrogen fuel cell.
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 23:31:55 +0000
Airbus wants to develop the “world’s first zero-emission commercial aircraft,” but its timeline for doing so is “by 2035.”
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 16:13:41 +0000
Plug Power has a green hydrogen dream for flying fuel cells 1,000 kilometers in the sparkling green economy of the future
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 02:10:58 +0000
Volocopter has opened up reservations for the first commercial electric air taxi rides in an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. A what? If you haven’t been following along as this industry has been heating up, an eVTOL aircraft is sort of a new-age helicopter
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 20:48:19 +0000
Pipistrel, a small electric aircraft company we’ve covered several times, has a small electric airplane called the Velis Electro. The Velis Electro got its “first type approval” from the EU aviation security authority and is ready for an adventure. It is going to fly more than 700 kilometers from the Swiss Alps to the North Sea
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 18:30:00 +0000
The U.S. Department of Energy today announced $33 million in funding for 17 projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Aviation-class Synergistically Cooled Electric-motors with iNtegrated Drives (ASCEND) and Range Extenders for Electric Aviation with Low Carbon and High Efficiency (REEACH) programs
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 21:06:19 +0000
Elon Musk suggested on Twitter last night that Tesla may be able to mass produce batteries with 50% more energy density in three to four years, which could possibly enable electric airplanes
Credit to Author: Jo Borrás| Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2020 17:00:46 +0000
Earlier this month, EAG, a UK-based engineering and development company, presented what appears to be the world’s first hybrid electric airplane for regional fleets. It’s called the HERA, and with its ultra-low operating cost, whisper-quiet running, and room for up to 70 commercial passengers, the new concept promises to reinvigorate the sustainable mass transportation market
Credit to Author: Press Release| Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 23:00:05 +0000
As of the end of 2019, the GTAA had actually reduced Scope 1 & 2 emissions by almost 60% versus a 2006 baseline, with approximately 30% of these reductions coming from GTAA operational changes and innovations and the other 30% attributed to the cleaning of the provincial power supply