Hybrid-electric planes could soon be flying passengers to and from Shetland as Loganair’s new partnership with Heart Aerospace aims to decarbonise air travel.
Loganair said the aircraft had the potential to “significantly reduce carbon emissions while offering cost-effective and accessible air travel”.
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Angela Grace Irvine
Never, same as I wont ever have a hybrid car or a full electric car until we are ‘made’ to use them! All a dangerous ‘green’ scam.
DR I M TINKLER
That would depend on whether it could get off the ground!
Billy Fox
Current airline regulations requires lithium batteries to be kept in hand luggage and not checked into the hold, a very sensible precaution against fire/explosive risk, these batteries are generally no bigger than a matchbox. How does attaching a very large lithium battery beneath the fuselage, as apparently illustrated, sit with this safety policy?
Additionally, reading into the detail of hybrid propulsion, the reduction in emissions is operationally minimal, even more so when battery production/disposal etc is taken into consideration. My feeling is this development lends itself more to a spurious argument for justifying and increasing air travel rather than any credible green benefit. Just google third airport to see how air travel is set to expand globally!