{"id":127058,"date":"2021-09-01T17:23:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T00:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/world-first-hydrogen-helicopter-to-certify-plug-and-play-h2-powerplant"},"modified":"2021-09-01T17:23:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T00:23:08","slug":"world-first-hydrogen-helicopter-to-certify-plug-and-play-h2-powerplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/world-first-hydrogen-helicopter-to-certify-plug-and-play-h2-powerplant","title":{"rendered":"World-first hydrogen helicopter to certify plug-and-play H2 powerplant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/world-first-hydrogen-helicopter-to-certify-plug-and-play-h2-powerplant2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The two companies have raised an initial US$6.5 million toward what could genuinely be a revolutionary powertrain for electric aircraft; a fully FAA-certified hydrogen system would instantly allow electric aircraft to carry several times more energy on board, vastly boosting flight endurance while also enabling fast refueling instead of slow charging.<\/p>\n<p>HyPoint claims its <a class=Link data-cms-ai=0 href=https:\/\/newatlas.com\/aircraft\/hypoint-turbo-air-cooled-fuel-cell-hydrogen-evtol-electric-aircraft\/ target=_top>\u201cturbo air-cooled\u201d fuel cell system<\/a>\u201d will be able to achieve up to 2,000 watts per kilogram (2.2 lb) of specific power, which is more than triple the power-to-weight ratio of traditional (liquid-cooled) hydrogen fuel cells systems. It will also boast up to 1,500 watt-hours per kilogram of energy density, enabling longer-distance journeys.\u201d For comparison, today\u2019s commercially available lithium battery packs rarely break the 300-Wh\/kg mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two companies have raised an initial US$6.5 million toward what could genuinely be a revolutionary powertrain for electric aircraft; a fully FAA-certified hydrogen system would instantly allow electric aircraft to carry several times more energy on board, vastly boosting flight endurance while also enabling fast refueling instead of slow charging. HyPoint claims its \u201cturbo [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}