Brief Summary of the Airbus Electric Airplanes

 

(courtesy:https://www.airbus.com/en/innovation/zero-emission-journey/electric-flight )

The search for the right fuel for airplanes which is commercially and technically viable has been going on for many decades. There was a long standing understanding among the innovators that the fossil-based fuels are not going to last forever and alternatives need to be found. Airbus, one of the foremost aircraft manufacturers of the world has been working on different types of fuels which can be used for powering the commercial planes of future. Electric powered planes are one of these initiatives. Airbus has been working on this technology for a long time.

Let us have check out the progress made by the company in developing these airplanes over the years. The first major breakthrough was in the year 2010 when it developed CriCri. This was a cute little airplane with four-engines that was fully electric. In the very next year, the company, riding high on its achievement, decides to get into a two-seater electric plane.

Two years later, in 2013, the company ventured into the first electric aircraft demonstrator and it was named E-fan 1.0. In the next two years, this will become the first electric plane to cross the English Channel.

By 2017, the company made another stride to launch E-fan X, which was based on hybrid-electric aircraft demonstrator. A further innovation was into the vertical take-off and landing airplane which was self-propelled and it was named Vahana. Its first flight was conducted in 2018. By next year, in 2019, another turnaround was made in eVTOL airplanes when CityAirbus, this time a  remotely piloted plane, took its first test take-off flight. In the same year, a dedicated test facility for alternative propulsion systems was launched in Ottobrunn in Germany. It was called the E-Aircraft System House.

By 2021, the electric airplane technology had matured enough to call different e-planes into a race. This is the world’s first Air Race for Electric airplanes.

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