GE: Advancing Hybrid Electric Propulsion
Description: In 2021, GE joined NASA’s Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration (EPFD) project. After years of developing individual components of a hybrid electric system—motors, generators and power converters—GE will systematically mature a megawatt class (MW) integrated hybrid electric powertrain to demonstrate flight readiness for single-aisle aircraft. Plans are to conduct ground and flight tests of the hybrid electric propulsion system by the mid-2020s using a modified Saab 340B testbed and GE’s CT7turboprop engines. See what we are doing today for the benefit of us all tomorrow: https://blog.geaviation.com/farnborough-airshow/ge-first-in-word-to-test-high-power-high-voltage-hybrid-electric-components-in-altitude-conditions/
Description: In 2021, GE joined NASA’s Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration (EPFD) project. After years of developing individual components of a hybrid electric system—motors, generators and power converters—GE will systematically mature a megawatt class (MW) integrated hybrid electric powertrain to demonstrate flight readiness for single-aisle aircraft. Plans are to conduct ground and flight tests of the hybrid electric propulsion system by the mid-2020s using a modified Saab 340B testbed and GE’s CT7turboprop engines. See what we are doing today for the benefit of us all tomorrow: https://blog.geaviation.com/farnborough-airshow/ge-first-in-word-to-test-high-power-high-voltage-hybrid-electric-components-in-altitude-conditions/