In the future, regional flights such as Trondheim-Oslo could become much more environmentally friendly with the help of a hybrid aircraft engine.
In the future, regional flights such as Trondheim-Oslo could become much more environmentally friendly with the help of a hybrid aircraft engine. This type of engine combines an electric motor and a combustion engine to drive a propeller. The innovation should be able to reduce CO2 emissions by up to 30 percent.
“The principle that causes emissions to decrease is the same as for hybrid cars – that is, a combination of both fuel and electricity,” says SINTEF researcher Torstein Grav Aakre.
Aviation accounts for about four percent of the EU’s total climate emissions. This solution has the potential to reduce emissions by as much as one percent throughout the EU, according to the researcher.
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