{"id":130374,"date":"2021-11-10T20:25:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T04:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/wright-proposes-a-100-seat-electric-airliner-powered-by-aluminum"},"modified":"2021-11-10T20:25:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T04:25:45","slug":"wright-proposes-a-100-seat-electric-airliner-powered-by-aluminum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/wright-proposes-a-100-seat-electric-airliner-powered-by-aluminum","title":{"rendered":"Wright proposes a 100-seat electric airliner powered by aluminum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wright-proposes-a-100-seat-electric-airliner-powered-by-aluminum2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>US-based Wright Electric has announced a 100-seat electric short-hop aircraft slated to go into service by 2026. It\u2019ll either be powered by hydrogen, or it\u2019ll use recyclable metal in what the company calls an \u201caluminum fuel cell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wright is working on a number of large electric aircraft projects, including an even bigger <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/uploads-ssl.webflow.com\/6014e375fb2fcc14f5e89e9b\/606fa47c579108780208fbbe_Wright%20Press%20Release%20January%2030%2C%202020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">186-seater<\/a> it\u2019s developing in conjunction with European airline EasyJet and BAE Systems. This would be a \u201clow-emissions\u201d electric, presumably using a fossil-fueled range extender to top up its batteries and extend its flight range to around 1,290 km (800 miles). The partnership is pitching it as a \u201cpath\u201d towards clean aviation, a kind of Prius of the skies, that will prove the electric powertrain while waiting for energy storage to come up to scratch.<\/p>\n<p>Wright\u2019s latest project, however, will be totally zero-emissions, and will use high-density energy storage to tackle flights up to an hour in duration \u2013 that\u2019s enough for the ~1,000-km (620-mile) hop between Sydney and Melbourne, or London-Geneva, or Tokyo-Osaka, or LA-San Francisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US-based Wright Electric has announced a 100-seat electric short-hop aircraft slated to go into service by 2026. It\u2019ll either be powered by hydrogen, or it\u2019ll use recyclable metal in what the company calls an \u201caluminum fuel cell.\u201d Wright is working on a number of large electric aircraft projects, including an even bigger 186-seater it\u2019s developing [\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-130374","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\/130374","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=130374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}