As the world struggles to reduce carbon emissions, air traffic is increasing by 5 percent each year. Ultimately, fully electric civil aircraft are planned, but hybrid-electric propulsion is expected to enter service first. Hybrid-electric distributed propulsion could give massive reductions in fuel consumption and emissions, but would require greatly improved electric motors with much higher power-to-weight ratio and efficiency. The advanced superconducting motor experimental demonstrator (ASuME…
Source URL: Fully Superconducting Motor Prepares for Testing
Source Website: Advance Engineering – Engineering.com
