Aircraft electrification is currently the best alternative to address the rising demand for more
air transportation and deal with anticipated economic and environmental impacts. Although …

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions has become a priority for civil transport aviation. One
of the possible solutions investigated by current aeronautics research is the introduction of …

The main purpose of this article is to provide an instructive review of the technological
challenges hindering the road toward more electric powertrains in aircraft. Hybrid, all …

The idea of electric propulsion for transportation is not new; indeed, the first cars, nearly 200
years ago, were electric. However, our dependence on fossil fuels over the last 100 years is …

Even though achieving carbon-free and reduced NOx emission transportation is a prevailing
goal, the aviation industry is in its infancy to arrive at passenger class all-electric aircraft …

Electrification of the propulsion system has opened the door to a new paradigm of
propulsion system configurations and novel aircraft designs, which was never envisioned …

Electric machines are critical components of the drivetrains of electric vehicles. Over the past
few years the majority of traction drive systems have converged toward containing some …

The reduction of aviation's CO 2 emissions is a major objective of the aviation industry.
About 98% of the world's aviation CO 2 is produced by aircraft with gross takeoff mass above …

More electric aircraft (MEA) architectures consist of several subsystems, which must all
comply with the settled safety requirements of aerospace applications. Thus, achieving …

In this article, turboelectric NASA N3-X aircraft is fully electrified for the first time; engines are
removed and the all-electric NASA N3-X aircraft electric power system (EPS) is introduced …