electric

NASA X-57 All-Electric Testbed Will NOT Fly After All
NASA will end its “operational activities” relating to the X-57 Maxwell all-electric experimental testbed, without making any test flights.
All-Electric Tecnam P-Volt Postponed
Tecnam stopped short of announcing that it is canceling the P-Volt program for an all-electric aircraft. But the project will…
Heart Aerospace ES-30 Finds Use Case In Åland?
Heart Aerospace is working with the government of the Åland Islands in Finland, to demonstrate the utility of its hybrid-electric…
Do eVTOL Programs Have Safety Culture Issues?
The emerging eVTOL industry brings a lot of technological innovations together but does it need to rethink how it handles…
Heart ES-30 Aircraft Launched With Air Canada!
Heart Aerospace in Sweden launched its latest electric aircraft design, the ES-30, with Air Canada as the launch customer. But…
Why Is Airbus Working On Hybrid-Electric Batteries?
Given that it selected hydrogen as the way to reach its net-zero emissions goal, why is Airbus working on hybrid-electric…
Sustainable Taxiing – A Look At The Schiphol Trial
Using jet engines to move aircraft around airports isn’t very efficient – and this is what sustainable taxiing is about.…
Airbus Could Produce Hydrogen Engines For Its Planes!
Guillaume Faury, the Airbus CEO, told the press that the manufacturer could make its own engines to power future aircraft…
Can We Electrify Existing Aircraft (like cars)?
Is it possible to electrify and save existing commercial aircraft, rather than replace them? And if so, how many can…
United – ZeroAvia Plan Hydrogen Re-Engined CRJ-550!
United Airlines invested in ZeroAvia, the company developing hydrogen-electric retrofit kits for ever-bigger existing commercial aircraft. We have previously seen…