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Wright demonstrates megawatt-class high-performance inverter for electric aircraft Wright Electric, a company developing an electric single aisle commerical aircraft comparable to the Boeing 737 or Airbus 320 (earlier post), has begun testing and has demonstrated a megawatt-class high-performance inverter. Whether a future airplane is battery-electric or powered by a hydrogen fuel cell, an inverter is a key component in high-voltage aircraft electric systems. Designed to be scalable from 500 kw to 20 MW systems, the Wright inverter targets the following levels of performance: 99.5% efficienc...

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on April 22, 2021 at 12:32 PM A soldier refuels his gas-guzzling MRAP armored truck in Afghanistan. WASHINGTON: How do you recharge electric vehicles on the battlefield? Army Futures Command is looking for out-of-the-box ideas, so it’s awarded $600,000 in concept development grants to six companies that don’t normally do business with the military. Refueling Army formations is a huge logistical problem – fuel convoys in Afghanistan and Iraq were often more dangerous than combat patrols – but moving from fossil fuel to electric vehicles raises logistical...

The race to develop the first green airplane is heating up. Rolls-Royce and Italian planemaker Tecnam announced a new partnership with Scandinavian regional airline Widerøe to develop a fully electric passenger plane. While a number of legacy companies and startups are working on electric flight, what’s notable about the new partnership is its ambitious timeframe: …

December 13, 2020 For $140,000, you can fly your own electric airplane. The Slovenian company Pipistrel sells the Alpha Electro, the first electric aircraft certified as airworthy by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in 2018. It’s a welterweight at just 811 pounds (368 kilograms), powered by a 21 kWh battery pack—about one-fifth the power of what you’d find in a Tesla Model S. For about 90 minutes, the pilot training plane will keep you and a companion aloft without burning a drop of fossil fuel. Those of us without a pilot license will have to wait longer for emissions-free fli...