Founded by engineers from University of Wisconsin-Madison, a company has just appeared claiming to have a route to 13kW/kg electric motors for flight. “For long-distance electric aircraft to be feasible, substantial improvements need to be made to electric propulsion system technology,” according to the company, named H3X. “ARPA-E has determined that for a Boeing 737 ...

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