Airbus and Rolls-Royce have ended their E-Fan X programme a year before the modified BAE Systems Avro RJ100 aircraft was due to fly. Both companies have cited the COVID-19 pandemic as the cause of the cancellation, which follows on from Airbus chief executive Guillaume Faury telling staff in a letter that the manufacturer was "bleeding cash at an unprecedented speed". Announced on November 28, 2017, the project was initially a collaborative effort among the European aerospace giant, the Derby-based power systems specialist and Siemens. The German company had developed a 2MW electric motor which was due to have replaced one of the regional jet's four Lycoming LF507 powerplants, while the aircraft's 97-seat cabin configuration was removed inanticipation of accommodating a 3,000v electrical distributor, a power generation system and a high-power battery pack.
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机译：在改装的BAE Systems Avro RJ100飞机上，空中客车和罗伊斯一年结束了他们的电子风扇X节目。两家公司都引用了Covid-19大流行作为取消的原因，这是从空中客车首席执行官Guillaume Faury告诉员工的一封信中的一封信，即制造商是“以前所未有的速度出血的现金”。该项目于2017年11月28日宣布，该项目最初是欧洲航空航天巨头，基于德比的电力系统专家和西门子的合作努力。德国公司开发了一个2MW电动机，这是由于已更换了一个区域喷气机的四个Lycoming LF507动力装置，而飞机的97座舱舱配置被删除预期容纳3,000V电气分配器，发电系统和大功率电池组。
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