Aviation is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Commercial flights in the United States emit around 805 million metric tonnes of CO2 per year. This accounts for around 2%Continue Reading
Some believe that electric aircraft are certainly the future, while others believe it is all nonsense. What truly inspires confidence, though, is when large names in the aviation business beginContinue Reading
Pratt & Whitney Canada, a self-proclaimed “global leader in the design, production, and servicing of aviation and helicopter engines and auxiliary power units,” has struck an agreement to co-develop hybrid-electricContinue Reading
Aviation is predicted to grow substantially over the next couple of decades and with aircraft emissions forecasted to triple during the first half of the century, it must do itsContinue Reading
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) recently announced the release of funding to several organizations working on electric aircraft. Electric aviation, especially for large passenger andContinue Reading
NASA is gearing up to begin tests on the X-57 Maxwell, the space agency’s first aircraft to be powered entirely by electricity. For now, the X-57 will remain safely groundedContinue Reading
Electric aircraft are all the rage, with prototypes in development in every size from delivery drones to passenger aircraft. But the technology has yet to take off, and for oneContinue Reading
Rolls-Royce wants to build the world’s fastest electric aircraft and has now begun integrating its electrical propulsion platform for this ultimate aim. The plan is for the e-plane to reachContinue Reading
