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will be a fully electric training aircraft powered only by batteries. will be a training and general aviation aircraft which will also have a combustion engine within the fuselage to provide an extendedrange or endurance. kN, with the energy being provided by two battery packs located in the wings.
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million US Department of Energy (DOE) Award for the development of a Scalable Ultra Power-dense ExtendedRange (SUPER) inverter. In the second year, the team will make all critical components that make up the inverter, including the power module and capacitor, and finalize the inverter’s design. Earlier post.).
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