Discussion
It's cool to see Airbus talk publicly about their test campaigns for both the hydrogen fuel-cell demonstrator and the hydrogen combustion demonstrator. Very much looking forward to the A380 demonstrator with the Elringklinger fuel cell #AirbusSummit
Additional insights from Guillaume Faury at #AirbusSummit on the #ZeroE program, and why it has been pushed out: “we would be wrong to be right too early”
ZeroE would be at risk of becoming the “concorde of Hydrogen", a solution that would not be commercially viable at scale
Airbus still has strong convictions about the future of hydrogen in aviation, but the regulatory framework and hydrogen ecosystem will need to make progress first.
Congrats to COMAC and CATL for their successful test flight of their 19 seater, running 10 electric ducted fans providing a 400km range thanks to its batteries with ~500 Wh/kg cell-level energy density. They did not confirm however what cells were used for the test flight.
#ElectricAviation #Batteries
Bummer to see Airbus push out the entry into service of a hydrogen aircraft by five to 10 years, from a previous goal of coming to the market by 2035
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-07/airbus-delays-hydrogen-plane-amid-huge-technology-challenges
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?