DeLorean Takes A Ride On Tesla’s “Flying Car” Coattails
The DeLorean Motor Company has hitched the iconic DeLorean name to the new Airspeeder series, a showcase for cutting edge “flying car” eVTOL technology.
Aviation
Heart’s ES-36 keeps electric motors at the propellers while turbogenerators extend missions beyond practical battery range.
Heart’s Electric Airliner Still Needs Fuel
On August 12, Heart Aerospace flew its X1 demonstrator for 27 minutes from Plattsburgh International Airport in New York. The aircraft weighed more than 25,000 pounds, had a 106-foot wingspan and put more than a megawatt through its electric propulsion system while taxiing, taking off, climbing, maneuvering and landing. There … [continued]
HyFlux’s superconducting motor could substantially improve propulsion power density, but its commercial value still depends on the aircraft, cryogenic fuel system and airport infrastructure around it.
HyFlux’s Superconducting Motor Might Work. Hydrogen Aviation Is The Hard Part.
HyFlux has an unusually interesting hydrogen-aviation proposition because the technology at its centre appears somewhat credible, if incredibly difficult to engineer and maintain. The UK company wants to exploit the extreme cold of liquid hydrogen already carried aboard a future hydrogen aircraft to cool a fully superconducting electric motor. Superconductivity … [continued]
Tackling Contrails Could Avoid 10 Years of Aviation-Related Climate Warming — New Research
Contrails, the white lines left by planes, contribute to global warming at a similar level to aviation’s CO₂ emissions, despite being produced by only a small share of flights. A new report by Klima Consulting, commissioned by T&E and authored by former IPCC scientist Olivier Boucher, finds that preventing their … [continued]
More than 300,000 plant-protection drones now perform roughly 203 million hectare-treatments annually in China. The market has moved beyond adoption into service, maintenance, renewal and operating standards.
China Is Doing About 30 Times More Agricultural Drone Work Than The U.S.
Agricultural spray drones are no longer an emerging technology in China. They are ordinary farm machinery at extraordinary scale. China entered 2026 with about 309,000 plant-protection drones, and those aircraft performed roughly 203 million hectare-treatments during 2025. A hectare treated three times counts as three hectare-treatments, so that figure measures … [continued]
China’s high-speed rail removes dense short-haul corridors from aviation while helping define the regional routes where electric aircraft can make more sense.
China’s Electric Aviation Advantage Is A Transport System, Not A Prototype
The electric-aviation contest is often presented as a race between aircraft startups. That is probably the wrong unit of analysis. An airplane that flies once, wins a certification milestone or accumulates a large order book has demonstrated something useful, but it has not demonstrated an industry. What matters is whether … [continued]
ReFuelEU’s First Year Shows the Mandate Works
Now Europe must unlock e-SAF investment. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) published today its Annual Technical Report on ReFuelEU Aviation (for 2025 data), providing the first full picture of the EU sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) market since the Regulation’s mandatory targets came into force. The report sends an … [continued]
Reckless Expansion Plans Blow Past European Airports Carbon Limits
A new T&E study finds expansions across twenty of Europe’s largest airports overshoot the 1.7 °C emissions budget by up to three times Planned expansions at twenty of Europe’s largest airports are incompatible with national climate targets and global warming limits. According to new research by T&E, the planned increases … [continued]
Why Allowing “e-HEFA” to Count Towards the ReFuelEU e-SAF Mandate Would Be a Strategic Mistake
Under the ReFuelEU regulation, jet fuel suppliers face a dedicated sub-mandate requiring a growing share of synthetic aviation fuel (e-SAF), i.e. SAF produced from green hydrogen combined with captured CO2, starting in 2030. Despite this obligation being known for years, most fuel suppliers have not developed their own e-SAF production … [continued]
Safeguarding the Integrity of EU Synthetic Fuels Targets under ReFuelEU Aviation & FuelEU Maritime
Director-General Céline Gauer , DG ENER Director Lukasz Kolinski, DG ENER Head of Unit Kitti Nyitrai, DG ENER Director-General Magda Kopczynska, DG MOVE Director-General Kurt Vandenberghe, DG CLIMA Member State Expert Group on Renewable Fuels We, the undersigned, are writing to express our concern regarding the ongoing pressure to allow … [continued]
