It's been three years since American space agency NASA started a project called Electric Powertrain Flight Demonstration (EPFD), and we're finally beginning to get a sense of what this program is all ...

If hybrid cars can cut CO2 emissions on the road, can hybrid-electric planes do the same in the air? NASA is exploring that possibility, announcing this week two contracts to aviation startup Electra.

Beta's aircraft are designed with fly-by-wire flight controls, which the company said makes them an "ideal platform" for both crewed and uncrewed operations. On Thursday, it said it integrated Near ...

Tweed is the first commercial airport to be selected for the partnership with NASA and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, called “Airports as Energy Nodes.” The partnership announcement comes ...

In this What's New in Aerospace program, NASA’s Nicholas Borer talks about the X-57 “Maxwell,” an all-electric experimental aircraft. Today, electrically-powered aircraft are starting to take flight, ...

NASA has revealed a powerful new battery that could change the future of flight. Their solid-state sulfur selenium battery is designed to replace gas-powered engines with electric ones. This leap in ...

GE Aerospace reported it is working with NASA to test a hybrid electric demonstrator engine with NASA that will embed electric motor/generators in a high-bypass commercial turbofan, to supplement ...

NASA gave $253 million in September 2021 to GE Aviation and magniX to bring the technology to US fleets by 2035. Boeing is investing $450 million in Wisk Aero, a company building an all-electric, ...

Propulsion provider MagniX is preparing its magni650 electric engine for a second phase of high-altitude tests at the NASA Electric Aircraft Testbed (NEAT) in Sandusky, Ohio, after a successful ...