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Airbus is Working on a Superconducting Electric Aircraft

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One of the greatest climate -related engineering challenges right now is the design and construction of a large, zero-emission, passenger airliner. The highlight, from a tech perspective, is a superconducting, fuel-cell powered airliner. And in this massive undertaking, no airplane maker is as invested as Airbus.

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Bertrand Piccard’s Big Hydrogen Adventure

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Now hes in the midst of what looks like his most technologically ambitious mission yet: to fly around the planet in a green-hydrogen fuel-cell aircraft. Planned for 2028, this trip would be the first nonstop zero-emission circumnavigation in human history. With Solar Impulse, there were no emissions, but there were 16 stopovers.

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EVs getting cleaner more quickly than expected in Europe: study

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On Wednesday, the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) released a study noting that BEVs sold today produce 73 percent fewer life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions than internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, even factoring in production. But life-cycle analysis is not a choose-your-own-adventure exercise.”

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Massive solar array to power airside electric ground service vehicles at JFK Airport’s New Terminal One

Charged EVs

Kennedy International Airport, the busiest airport for international traffic in North America, always seems to be reinventing itself. It opened in 1948 as New York International Airport, although it was typically referred to then as Idlewild. MW of fuel cells and 1.5

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Event: 2025 ACT Expo

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The Latest Developments in Low and Zero-Emission Commercial Vehicles The largest coming together of the clean energy industry for commercial vehicles, ACT Expo 2025 (for A dvanced C lean T ransportation) was held this past week in Anaheim, California. But the change in administration in Washington, D.C.,

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Does the manual gearbox have a future in an EV world?

Baua Electric

Will it fade into obscurity, or will it remain a fixture in an increasingly electrified and emissions conscious automotive landscape? However, the overall reasons for increased automatic gearbox adoption are multi-layered, spanning electrified, as well as internal combustion engine ( ICE ) vehicles.

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How U.S. Airports Like Pittsburgh’s Generate Electricity On Site to Avoid Heathrow-Like Outages

Baua Electric

When Christina Cassotis, the chief executive of Pittsburgh International Airport, heard about the power outage that forced Londons Heathrow Airport to suspend operations last week, she thought of the workers who were frantically trying to manage the chaos. Commerce Department. That and other outages prompted Ms. Cassotis said.

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