United Airlines says short-haul electric planes will be cheaper than traditional jets within a decade and that will remake regional passenger travel decisions.
"It used to be different," said Anders Forslund, CEO of Gothenburg, Sweden-based Heart Aerospace, which has a contract to supply United with 100 30-seat electric planes."Go back to the 1990s, there were hundreds of small aircraft serving a lot of communities that have now lost service."Why small city plane travel stopped
Travelers will be unlikely to see any major difference in the interior of an electric-powered plane, Leskinen said. And the ability to change planes in as little as 30 minutes will mean planes can be in use 10 or 11 hours per day, allowing for flexible schedules. . The U.S. Energy Dept. says sustainable airline fuels, or SAF, emit"dramatically lower" carbon levels, but not zero, and says some SAF technologies under development could lead to negative net greenhouse gas emissions.with Airbus to study hydrogen-fueled aircraft but considers SAF its primary medium-term means to reduce emissions with new technology.
"We have a portfolio pipeline of sustainable aviation projects at United that's 177 companies deep, and we were pencils down on a number of those because without this legislation the hurdles were just too [high] to develop this technology,'' he said."There are literally dozens of companies that wouldn't have worked that are now viable startups that you'll hear about United Airlines and United Ventures investing in in the coming months.
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