Electrical flight is waiting for the battery penetration

Nader Flying in Bergen City, Norway earlier this month.

Alia had transported 100 miles (160 km) in 55 minutes on the battery capacity alone.

Designed by Beta Technologies by Aerospace Technologies, it is designed for charging – which reaches 560 kg (half a ton).

The trip had simulated a planned shipping road between the coastal cities in Staffinger and Bergen, and over the next few months, the test flight will be implemented, as part of the country’s move towards the establishment of a low -emission flight.

On the driving, the pilot Jeremy Digani, “If you drive, this is four and a half hours. We took the trip in 52 minutes.”

“It is an important milestone for Norway as an international test,” says Avenor, Avenor.

The test in Norway is affiliated with a European tour, which started in Ireland, and witnessed for the first time in Varburo and Paris air shows, as well as stopping in Germany and Denmark.

Alia can fly to 400 km (250 miles) for one charge, and refueling in less than 40 minutes by connecting, just like the electric car.

The same fixed model can be formed in medical transport or passengers with up to five seats, and in June (September) it made the first electrical explanatory flight to the passengers to JFK Airport in New York.

Beta, which is Amazon as an investor and UPS as a customer, hopes to have a certificate for our plane this year.

“I am convinced that the next major penetration in Aerospace will come on the back of the electric payment,” says Sean Hall, chief revenue in Beta, a former fighter pilot.

“We are now able to reduce the operating cost significantly and are environmentally beneficial from carbon perspective.”

Alia is one of the most advanced projects, among dozens of companies that explore electrical payment.

It will be one of the ways to reduce carbon fingerprint in the aviation industry – which is currently 3 % of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.

However, PipistRel Velis Electro remains the only electrical plane that gets a full certificate from the European authorities, Despite the purification of that obstacle Five years ago.

With a group of 185 km and 50 minutes from the flight time, the Slovenian manufacture is limited to training and not for passengers from A to B.

But the successes like these have been overwhelmed A series of failure In electrical flights.

Even Airbus Airbus has retreated from the market. In January, it announced that the development of its Cityairbus electric planes It will be suspended.

The range is still the main restriction of the electric trip. Even the best huge and heavy ion lithium batteries, with a much lower energy density than jet fuel.

They “have not improved significantly” over the past two decades, Jay Gratton, an aviation expert and professor at the University of Cranfield.

He says the electrical journey to take off, a “revolution” is needed in battery chemistry.

Looking at these restrictions, some are looking for alternative technology.

Just as the hybrid cars were a starting point towards electric cars; The plane makers are now experimenting with hybrid technology.

Among the emerging companies in the field of aviation trying to remove the electric passengers from the Earth, is Aerospace Heart.

She recently transferred its operations entirely from Sweden to the United States, whose administration said would help her focus on “resources” and be closer to customers, including Mesa and UNITED airlines.

The company has developed an initial plane of 30 seats, X1, which saw the BBC before shipping to the United States.

If everything plans during the upcoming test tests, it will become the largest battery flying plane. “It contains about the tinnitus of the batteries in it,” the chief technology official of Benjamin Stapler.

For its real world operations, Heart adopts a mainly different design: a hybrid plane, supported by batteries, but carries fuel as a backup.

“You don’t need to [many] Mr. Staller, who makes him lighter and cheaper, says, and also allows more passengers who pay the payment.

“For a natural road, it will fully fly from taking off to landing,” explained.

“If you want to go longer, or if there is a conversion, you can switch to the turbines.”

The plane can travel 200 km on an electric trip only. With hybrid technology, which is scheduled to fall in 2026, it can fly 400 km with 30 passengers, or up to 800 km with 25, company claims.

Professor Gratan says: “Public transport is truly required, a large amount of energy reserves,” says Professor Gratan.

“Satisfaction and the use of traditional fuel to carry safety reserves are logical,” added Professor, who had previously called this approach.

The heart is not alone in this field.

The United States -based Electra expects its headquarters that a nine -seat of nine flight seats by 2029, which works on a mixture of jet fuel and electric energy.

Beta Technologies also follows up hybrid aircraft for defense and civilian purposes. Its first model was built in 2023, and later this year, it plans to produce a plane not only hybrid but independent.

“Are we excited about a hybrid? 100 %,” says Mr. Hall.

“It is a way to get longer domains, today, and still get a lot of environmental benefits.”

The electric basis is completely argued first with Mr. Hall, “You are then a layer on hybrid technology.”

The hybrid systems have less emissions than traditional aircraft and the electric motors will enable more quiet and fall in urban areas.

It is still unclear how the future will look like.

The most green fuel like sustainable aviation (SAF) attracted investment, along with hydrogen -based systems.

Everyone will have to prove its validity and commercial safety, and a lot of work must be done.

“This is really difficult, which leads to flying and carbon removal,” said Mr. Stapler.