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This is the first and only report to analyse all forms of
electric flying vehicle from robot insects to new solar airships,
light aircraft and airliners and give timelines to 2022. It covers
manned and unmanned aircraft, technology, funding, standards and
other aspects for hybrid and pure electric versions across the
world. Unusually, we compare what is happening in aviation with
progress in land and water based electric vehicles that are in some
ways further progressed yet use similar components and powertrains
to achieve largely similar objectives.
Aircraft design will never be the same again after the pressure
to save the planet, reduce local noise, air and land pollution,
reduce dependency on foreign oil and large areas of land for
operations and to modernise industry or see it collapse. Belatedly,
leaded fuel is being banned for aviation and considerable financial
support is now available for the creation of new types of electric
aircraft.
In this report we look at the considerable choices of component,
system and structure for pure and hybrid electric aircraft, the
huge number of projects and the few commercial successes. We
examine what will happen over the next ten years. Unusually, we
view all this in the light of what is being achieved in electric
vehicles for land and water. What is the best selling electric
aeroplane and what is the biggest development contract landed for
electric aircraft? Why are microturbine range extenders so
interesting and will there be a big retrofit market for electric
drives in light aircraft? Where are fuel cells for aircraft headed
and which types of traction battery are favoured and why? How do
smart skin and multiple energy harvesting fit in? Which are the
organisations to watch? It is all here.
This report is essential reading for chief executives, sales and
marketing and business planning vice presidents and those in
government, finical institution, consultants etc to understand
electric aircraft and where they are headed. It has no equations,
and covers the basics of battery, motor, supercapacitor,
supercabattery, flexible solar cell, fuel cell and other
components, so the non technical reader can learn a great deal.
However, it progresses to compare such things as hybrid powertrain
options for aircraft, preferred batteries to power aircraft,
battery cathode, anode and cell geometry, flexible printed
photovoltaics chemistries for aviation and who is winning in
electric aircraft and why - flight trials, development contracts,
launch dates. The trend toward bigger batteries and various types
of range extender is explained and the options appraised.
With the next generation of electric aircraft being designed
from the ground up rather than shoehorned into existing airframes,
we explain what will be possible with printed electronics including
new components such as flexible, lightweight solar cells and new
airframes and missions. Flying motorcycles, planes that dive to
become submarines, huge solar powered radar airships through to
retrofitting a Cessna are considered, with funding from a few
thousand dollars to 530 million
dollars on one project. Throughout, we benchmark best
practice with land and water EVs, price premium and pay back
elements with many comparison charts and figures.
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1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
1.1. Introduction to electric aircraft
1.2. Range extenders
1.3. Energy harvesting
1.4. Traction batteries
1.5. Fuel cells
1.6. Comparisons
1.7. Supercapacitors
1.8. Traction motors
1.9. Electric Helicopters and Record Breaking Cars Enabled
1.10. Need for more benchmarking
1.11. Market projections 2011-2022
2. INTRODUCTION
2.1. Definitions and scope
2.2. Needs
2.3. Encouragement
2.4. Impediments
2.4.1. VESPAS Europe
2.5. Benchmarking best practice with land and seagoing EVs
2.6. Standards and rules
2.7. Airport EVs show the way
3. TECHNOLOGIES
3.1. Powertrains
3.1.1. Pure electric vs hybrid
3.1.2. Convergence
3.1.3. Options
3.1.4. Range extenders
3.1.5. Airliner superconducting motor with range extender
3.2. Motors
3.3. Batteries
3.3.1. Battery history
3.3.2. Analogy to a container of liquid
3.3.3. Construction of a battery
3.3.4. Many shapes of battery
3.3.5. Trend to laminar and conformal traction batteries
3.3.6. Aurora laminar batteries in aircraft.
3.3.7. Choices of chemistry and assembly
3.3.8. Lithium winners today and soon
3.3.9. Lithium polymer electrolyte now important
3.3.10. Winning chemistry
3.3.11. Winning lithium traction
battery manufacturers
3.3.12. Making lithium batteries
safe
3.3.13. GE Aviation Electrical
Power Integrated Systems Research & Development Center
3.3.14. A123 Systems goes
niche
3.4. Fuel cells
3.4.1. Slow progress with fuel cells
3.4.2. Aerospace and aviation applications
3.4.3. AeroVironment USA
3.4.4. Boeing Europe
3.4.5. Boeing and Airbus USA,
Europe
3.4.6. ENFICA Italy and UK
3.4.7. Pipistrel Slovenia
3.4.8. Skyspark Italy
3.4.9. University of Stuttgart
Germany
3.5. Supercapacitors, supercabatteries
3.5.1. What is a capacitor?
3.5.2. Supercabattery
3.6. Energy harvesting
3.6.1. Multiple forms of energy to be managed
3.6.2. Photovoltaics
3.6.3. AeroVironment/ NASA USA
3.6.4. Boeing and Versa USA,
Qinetiq & Newcastle University UK
3.6.5. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland
3.6.6. ETH Zurich Switzerland
3.6.7. Green Pioneer China
3.6.8. Gossamer Penguin USA
3.6.9. Néphélios France
3.6.10. QinetiQ UK
3.6.11. Silent Falcon™ UAS
Technologies
3.6.12. Soaring China
3.6.13. Solair Germany
3.6.14. Solar Flight USA
3.6.15. Sunseeker USA
3.6.16. University of Applied Sciences Schwäbisch Gmünd
Germany
3.6.17. US Air Force
3.6.18. Northrop Grumman
USA
3.7. Other energy harvesting
3.8. Regenerative soaring
3.9. Biomimetic aircraft snatch and export power?
3.9.1. IFO-Energy Unlimited in Hungary
3.9.2. Copy the birds
3.9.3. How to capture the wind?
3.9.4. Valid physics
3.9.5. How to maintain altitude?
3.9.6. Storage of energy is more challenging
3.9.7. Onboard superconducting technology?
3.9.8. Flywheels and EV technologies?
3.9.9. Soaring airliners?
3.10. Power beaming
3.11. Hybrid powertrains in action
3.11.1. Multifuel and monoblock engines
3.11.2. Beyond Aviation: formerly Bye Energy USA, France
3.11.3. Lotus UK
3.11.4. Microturbines - Bladon Jets, Capstone, ETV Motors,
Atria
3.12. Hybrid aircraft projects
3.12.1. Delta Airlines USA
3.12.2. DLR Germany
3.12.3. EADS Germany
3.12.4. Flight Design Germany
3.12.5. GSE USA
3.12.6. Ricardo UK
3.12.7. Turtle Airships Spain
3.12.8. University of Bristol
UK
3.12.9. University of Colorado
USA
3.13. Rethinking the structural design
4. SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES AND OTHER EXOTICA
4.1. SUAV
4.1.1. Aurora Skate UAV wins border protection award
4.1.2. Aerovironment small AUVs
4.1.3. Rotomotion
4.1.4. Robot insects
4.1.5. Reconnaissance bugs and bats
4.1.6. Nano air vehicle
4.1.7. Lite Machines Corporation USA
4.1.8. University of Arizona
4.2. Large electrical UAVs
4.3. Phantom Works USA
plane-car
4.4. Flying motorcycle Samson Motorworks
4.5. Japanese solar sail to Venus
5. ELECTRIC AIRCRAFT IN ACTION
5.1. Alatus Ukraine
5.2. Alisport Silent Club Italy
5.3. APAME France
5.4. Diamond Aircraft, Siemens, EADS
5.5. EADS Germany, France
5.6. Electravia France
5.7. Electric Aircraft Corporation USA
5.8. Eurocopter helicopter default EV Europe
5.9. Falx USA
5.10. Flight of the Century
5.11. Flightstar USA
5.12. Lange Aviation Germany
5.13. Pipistrel Slovenia
5.14. Renault France
5.15. Russian Government
5.16. Sikorsky USA
5.17. SkySpark
5.18. Sonex USA
5.19. Sunrise USA
5.20. Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan
5.21. Tokyo University Japan
5.22. Volocopter Germany
5.23. Windward Performance USA
5.24. University of Cambridge UK
5.25. Yuneec International China
5.26. Potential for electric airliners
5.27. Airliner electric nose wheel for taxiing
5.27.1. APU powered electric nose wheel
5.27.2. Fuel cell powered electric nose wheel
6. 15 YEAR TIMELINE AND MARKET NUMBERS
6.1. Forecast sales 2011-2021
6.2. Energy efficient aircraft - the next 15 years
6.3. Swarming, self-healing networks of UAVs
6.3.1. Swarming 3D eye-bots in Germany
APPENDIX 1: PAVING THE WAY TO HYBRID HELICOPTERS
APPENDIX 2: IDTECHEX PUBLICATIONS AND CONSULTANCY
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