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Wright Electric & Columbia University Receive U.S. Department of Energy Award for Ultra-Lightweight Battery Development

March 17, 2024 admin arpa-e, Aviation, clean transport, electric aircraft, electric airplanes, Electric vehicles, press releases, us department of energy (doe), wright electric

Credit to Author: Press Release| Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 15:35:48 +0000

MALTA, NEW YORK — Wright Electric, in collaboration with Columbia University, is pleased to announce that they have been awarded a contract from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Pioneering Railroad, Oceanic and Plane Electrification with 1K energy storage systems (PROPEL-1K) for their groundbreaking work on … [continued]

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Hydrogen Electric Aircraft Scheme Hatched By EU Nations

February 5, 2024 admin airbus, aircraft, Aviation, clean power, clean transport, electric air mobility, electric aircraft, electric airplanes, EU, Europe, fuel cell airplanes, hydrogen fuel cell, zeroavia

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2024 12:19:41 +0000

Plans for hydrogen infrastructure are being hatched at European airports to support fuel cell electric aircraft.

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Electric Aircraft Offer Major Climate Benefits

January 26, 2024 admin Aviation, clean transport, electric aircraft, electric airplanes, Electric vehicles

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 19:13:49 +0000

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have performed the world’s first life cycle assessment (LCA) of an existing, two-seater, … [continued]

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Megawatt Electrical Motor Designed By MIT Engineers Could Help Electrify Aviation

June 14, 2023 admin Aviation, clean transport, electric aircraft, electric airplanes, electric motors, Electric vehicles, ev motors, massachusetts institute of technology (mit), mit

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2023 03:00:51 +0000

Aviation’s huge carbon footprint could shrink significantly with electrification. To date, however, only small all-electric planes have gotten off the ground. Their electric motors generate hundreds of kilowatts of power. To electrify larger, heavier jets, such as commercial airliners, megawatt-scale motors are required. These would be propelled by hybrid or turbo-electric propulsion systems where an […]

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Orders For Eviation Alice Electric Plane Pass $2 Billion

November 8, 2022 admin Aviation, cape air, clean transport, electric aircraft, electric airplanes, Electric vehicles, eviation, eviation alice, magnix

Credit to Author: Tim Tyler| Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2022 03:57:45 +0000

Eviation Aircraft has just announced that the order book for the all-electric Alice airplane has passed a total value of $2 billion. Eviation is developing all-electric aircraft that are built to make flight sustainable, affordable, and a quiet solution to regional travel. On September 27, Eviation’s Alice electric plane conducted its first flight at Moses […]

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Electric Airplane Flights Coming to Florida, the Bahamas, and the Caribbean — in 2027

September 26, 2022 admin Aviation, Bahamas, clean transport, electric aircraft, electric airplanes, Electric vehicles, eviation, eviation aircraft, eviation aircraft alice, Florida, globalx

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2022 16:13:11 +0000

Electric aircraft are all the rage, and they have been for several years, but when are we going to see actual commercial electric airplane options for normal people? Soon! Well, sort of soon. The electric aircraft “Alice” from Eviation Aircraft has been getting real orders lately, including from a young airline based in Florida. There’s […]

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Another Sign Hybrid-Electric Aircraft Are The Future

July 24, 2022 admin Aviation, clean transport, electric aircraft, electric airplanes, Electric vehicles, pratt & whitney canada, ricardo

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 03:20:27 +0000

One of the news items that recently crossed our path is the news that Pratt & Whitney Canada — which is a self-proclaimed “world leader in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft and helicopter engines and auxiliary power units” — has signed an agreement with consulting firm Ricardo to co-develop hybrid-electric aircraft technology. Typically, […]

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H3X HPDM-3000 Megawatt-Class Motor Key to Large Electric Aircraft

July 20, 2022 admin Aviation, clean transport, electric airplanes, electric motors, Electric vehicles, h3x, h3x electric motor

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 19:00:44 +0000

Press Release – United States, July 20, 2022
It’ll take a lot of power to get electric aircraft into the mainstream … and the H3X HPDM-3000 has that!

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Electric Air Transport of the Future: Air Mobility Initiative

May 5, 2022 admin air mobility initiative (ami), Aviation, Bavaria, clean transport, electric aircraft, electric airplanes, electric aviation, Electric vehicles, GERMANY, research, university of stuttgart, vertiports

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 01:10:30 +0000

To advance the development of regional and Urban Air Mobility, leading companies, universities, and research institutions as well as municipalities and organizations are joining forces to form the Air Mobility Initiative (AMI). The Institute of Flight Mechanics and Controls (iFR) [de] at the University of Stuttgart is also a partner in the initiative. This initiative, […]