E-Fan Experience Spawns French Hybrid-Electric Startup

摘要

Airbus unveiled the all-electric E-Fan 1.0 with much fanfare in 2014, the little battery-powered demonstrator flying across the English Channel in 2015. But in 2017, the European giant canceled plans to enter the general aviation (GA) market with a pair of electric light aircraft.Jean Botti was Airbus chief technical officer when the E-Fan 1.0 was developed. He left the company in April 2016, before Airbus canceled the E-Fan 2.0 and 4.0 to focus on different and larger aircraft, including the E-Fan X hybrid-electric regional airliner demonstrator now under development.