Why did Heart Aerospace change their all electric airliner to hybrid electric?
From SkyZero Podcast on Electric and Hybrid Electric Aviation · 10:48
Show by Kyle Hodgson
When I talked to Ben Stabler at Heart Aerospace, it finally clicked for me why they scrapped the all electric ES-19 design for the "independent hybrid" ES-30 - its all about IFR reserves and regional airliner economics - and it turns out those turboprops might not be used much... but they're a mass savings, not dead weight. How?
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