ALBANY, NY., October 13, 2020 — Wright Electric, Inc. (the “Company” or “Wright”), a world leader in zero-emissions commercial aviation, announced today that the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has selected Wright […]
New Applications From LiquidPiston Enable Aircraft Electrification To Improve Drone and Rotorcraft Flight Duration and Fuel Efficiency Using the company’s innovative X-Engine, LiquidPiston is working with the U.S. Army and its xTechSearch small business technology competition […]
Berlin, 16 September 2020 — At Greentech Festival in Berlin today, Volocopter, the pioneer of Urban Air Mobility (UAM), announced that the world’s first public sale for electrical air taxi flight reservations has started. Effective immediately, […]
LG Chem has succeeded in flying at the highest altitude with a lithium-sulfur battery for the first time in Korea Loaded a lithium-sulfur battery on a solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (EAV-3) developed by Korea Aerospace Research […]
“The flying car: The official name is called “Flying Cars and landing type non-pilot aircraft”, electrification, fully autonomous autopilot, vertical takeoff and landing is a major feature. As a new movement in the field of mobility, […]
Collaboration aims to create smart mobility solutions that puts people first, connects communities and generates shared value. Urban-Air Port Ltd and Hyundai Air Mobility (a Hyundai Motor Group division) have announced a partnership to explore new, […]
Originally published by Berkeley Lab New battery technology developed at Berkeley Lab could give flight to electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and supercharge safe, long-range electric cars In the pursuit of a rechargeable battery that […]
DETROIT, MI – Today, in his remarks at General Motors in Detroit, U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette announced $139 million in federal funding for 55 projects across the country that will support new and innovative advanced […]
Introduction In Part I of this article, I introduced the problem of Climate change, and the history of the science behind it. I then went on to discuss green house gases, noting that greenhouse-gas emissions are […]
The Goldilocks Planet Our planet, Earth, is the only planet in the known universe able to support life. I stress here the word, “known”, as statisticians are able to say that, as there are trillions of […]
Chinese electric airplane gets a update On November the 2nd of 2017, the updated version of China’s first electric airplane had its maiden flight. It is a two-seat electric trainer aircraft — similar to the Pipistrel electric […]
The Seattle-area-based startup Zunum Aero — backed by the venture capital arms of Boeing and JetBlue Airways — is now planning to bring a small hybrid-electric airliner to market by the year 2022, it has revealed. […]
The field of electric, ultralight aircraft is an interesting one. There’s quite a lot of potential there, and research has been ongoing for quite a long time now, but nothing has proven commercially interesting as of […]
Electric aviation is still in its infancy, but with interest in the field clearly growing rapidly by the year … (see our recent coverage of the Siemens news for more on that.) … more and more […]
A new type of electric motor — weighing just 50 kilograms, but delivering a continuous power output of around 260 kilowatts (roughly 5 times comparable drive systems) — was recently demonstrated live in an Extra 330LE […]
