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$3.3 Million Grant For Fuel Cell/Electric Aviation Startup ZeroAvia

October 4, 2019 admin Aviation, clean transport, INTERVIEWS, uk, zeroavia

Credit to Author: Jake Richardson| Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2019 16:20:21 +0000

The aviation startup ZeroAvia has received a £2.7m (US$3.3 million) grant from the UK government. The funds will be used to support continued development of fuel cell/electric propulsion technology to reduce aviation CO2 emissions. The company was founded in 2017 by Val Miftakhov, who is also the current CEO. He answered some questions for CleanTechnica about the new grant

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ZeroAvia Testing Hydrogen-Powered Electric Airplanes

August 21, 2019 admin Aviation, clean transport, electric airplane, Electric vehicles, hydrogen fuel cell, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, zeroavia

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 15:45:41 +0000

ZeroAvia announced this week it has been conducting test flights of a hydrogen fuel cell powered electric airplane under the auspices of the FAA. It plans to build 10 to 20 passenger airplanes for flights up to 500 miles.