Dublin, Jan. 25, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Manned Electric Aircraft 2018-2028" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
In 2028, Manned Electric Aircraft will be a $7 Billion Business
This report is replete with new forecasts, analysis and infographics seeing the future. The key parts of recent presentations by all the key players are embedded in this work, almost entirely researched in 2017 by award winning PhD level analysts travelling worldwide. Interviews, the analysts databases, web searches and conference attendance were extensively used. Old information is useless in this now fast moving field.
The structure of the report is a comprehensive Executive Summary and Conclusions then Introduction looking at lessons from the past then chapters on types of powertrain involved, motors and motor generators, energy storage, energy harvesting and regeneration, the end game of Energy Independent Electric Vehicles EIV and finally More Electric Aircraft MEA programs and how they are migrating to electric aircraft. Throughout there are many examples of electric aircraft from airships to helicopters and microlights, both for sale and planned. Specifications are given for many of these and key components for the future are discussed in depth. The tone is critical not evangelical.
The coverage in the report includes 2018-2028 forecasts of low and high priced electric aircraft sales by number, unit price and market value and a view of figures up to 2031 including assessments by several leading players. The subject matter includes looking at how electric aircraft have largely followed electric land and water vehicles. Pure electric small ones appeared first, about 50 years after the first electric boats and cars. Hybrid ones are needed for the longer distances and tougher duty cycles and only now are these getting serious investment.
The report finds that the delays are only partly explained by the tougher demands and regulatory requirements of aircraft and how things are now changing with much larger commitments. In 2016, Siemens and Airbus agreed to pool 200 engineers to work on them, the level of effort Toyota allotted to hybrid cars twenty years earlier, with major commercial success resulting today.
Toyota enjoys well over $20 billion dollars of sales of electric cars, buses and forklifts with Honda and BMW successful too - interesting because all three are now tackling aircraft. Indeed, Google and Facebook are involved in electric cars and aircraft and Apple is interested so it is wake up time. The report analyses the opportunities in new aircraft and their changing key components.
Key Topics Covered:
1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
1.1. Unique approach of this report
1.2. Some important findings
1.3. Why go electric for manned aircraft?
1.3.1. Many other benefits
1.4. How to transition to electric aircraft: MEA, hybrid, pure electric
1.4.1. Airbus Vahana personal aircraft announcement 2017
1.5. MEA issues and opportunities
1.6. Where electric aircraft are headed: range anxiety to range superiority
1.7. Manned aircraft lagged land-based electric vehicles
1.7.1. SolarStratos
1.7.2. Aviation a follower in electrification but upturn arrives
1.7.3. Hybrids should have been first
1.7.4. Hybrids: running before you can walk
1.7.5. Example: Eraole hybrid plane
1.8. Trend to larger electric aircraft
1.8.1. Overview of major issues
1.8.2. Viability of pure electric larger aircraft: timeline
1.9. Electrification of aircraft in general: rapid progress
1.10. Electric aircraft already commercialised
1.10.1. Examples
1.10.2. Sun Flyer 4
1.10.3. Viability of electric primary trainers already
1.11. Routes to further commercialisation of electric aircraft
1.11.1. Example - Lilium ultralight VTOL aircraft prototype
1.12. Pure electric manned aircraft arriving
1.12.1. Examples: Powered paraglider Skyrider One and Volocopter
1.12.2. Example: Airbus E-Fan
1.13. Hybrid electric aircraft arriving
1.13.1. HYPSTAIR powertrain for general aviation
1.13.2. Hybrid electric helicopters, multicopters
1.13.3. Airbus eThrust concept with DEP
1.13.4. NASA Sceptor concept with DEP
1.13.5. Magnus eFusion Light Sport E-Plane
1.14. Megawatt electric aircraft
1.15. Siemens 260 kW electric aircraft motor makes first public flight July 2016
1.16. Siemens electric aerobatic plane gains two world speed records September 2017
1.17. Retrofit: Ampaire
1.18. Choice of powertrains is influenced by many factors
1.19. New end game: Energy Independent Vehicles EIV
1.20. Key enabling technologies in future: examples
1.20.1. Energy harvesting including regeneration
1.20.2. Structural electronics tears up the rule book
1.20.3. Power electronics and other key enablers
1.21. Less mechanics: more electronics
1.22. Becoming one business land, water, air - hybrid and pure electric
1.23. Regulations have impeded small e-aircraft in the USA
1.24. Ambition and freedom in Europe
1.25. Progress in East Asia
1.25.1. China
1.25.2. Japan
1.26. Hybrid airliner concept late 2017
1.27. Market forecasts
1.27.1. Timelines 2017-2031: Airbus, Rolls Royce, others
1.27.2. MEA target and roadmaps converge to EV for 2035
1.27.3. Manned electric aircraft and airliner forecasts
1.27.4. Manned electric aircraft market forecasts 2018-2028 including hybrid
1.27.5. USA has huge build-up of old small aircraft and issues
1.28. Hybrid electric plane could cut pollution
1.29. GE Aviation and Hybrid Electronic Propulsion
1.30. Wright Electric and Easyjet
1.31. Airbus and HAX call for start-ups
1.32. Boeing Investments October 2017
2. INTRODUCTION
2.1. Lessons from the past
2.2. Situation today
2.3. Other examples: trend to offering several powertrain options in one airframe
2.4. First commercial four seat hybrid
2.5. Contest in 2015: new battery and fuel cell planes
2.6. DLR project for HY4 four-passenger fuel cell aircraft
2.7. New Airbus autonomous aircraft November 2016
2.8. Zero-emission air transport - first flight of four-seat passenger aircraft HY4 - September 2016
2.9. The first electric and VTOL aircraft by Zee.Aero - October 2016
2.10. Hamilton aerobatic aircraft
2.11. Airbus flying car prototype ready by the end of 2017
2.12. Zunum-Boeing
2.13. Uber air taxis
2.13.1. Aurora eVTOL USA
2.14. Air taxis - the legal position
2.15. Zee.Aero flies in 2017
2.16. Toyota 'backs flying car project' in Japan
2.17. chAIR
2.18. Fanwing EU SOAR
3. TYPES OF POWERTRAIN
3.1. What is an electric powertrain?
3.2. Pure electric or hybrid
3.2.1. Example: PC Aero Elektra One
3.2.2. Examples: E-Genius, SUGAR Volt
3.3. Types of hybrid electric aircraft
3.3.1. Parallel hybrid
3.3.2. Series hybrid
3.4. Typical hybrid duty cycle and examples
3.4.1. Duty cycle
3.4.2. Bye Aerospace and Sun Flyer
3.4.3. Cambridge University Song hybrid
3.4.4. Equator P2 Xcursion amphibious aircraft
3.4.5. Biofuel solar hybrid
3.4.6. DARPA VTOL
3.5. Mild vs strong hybrid: lessons from land vehicles
3.6. EV powertrains and technology forecasts: 2000
3.7. EV powertrains and technology forecasts: 2016
3.8. EV powertrains and technology forecasts: 2017 onwards
3.9. Energy independent electric vehicles EIV operational choices
3.10. Key EIV technologies
3.11. Motors and motor generators
3.11.1. Trend to higher power to weight ratio
3.11.2. Technologies in context of all EVs
3.11.3. Electrical engine start for hybrid electric aircraft
3.11.4. Integrated components - in-wheel
3.11.5. Multimotor designs
3.11.6. Superconducting propulsors and interconnects
3.12. Range extenders
3.12.1. Overview
3.12.2. Gas turbines and rotary combustion engines
3.12.3. Fuel cells
4. ENERGY STORAGE
4.1. Options
4.2. The role of energy storage technologies in electric vehicles
4.3. Making lithium-ion batteries safer
4.4. Operational Principles of Different Systems
4.5. Supercapacitors to Li-ion batteries - a spectrum of functional tailoring
4.6. Matching future hybrid and pure electric aircraft to energy storage choices. Learning from other industries
4.6.1. Map of energy storage choices 2026-2036
4.7. Supercapacitors across lithium-ion batteries
4.8. Extreme lightweighting by structural electronics
4.8.1. Earlier attempts at structural fuel; cells, batteries and capacitors
4.8.2. Successful supercapacitor bodywork
4.8.3. Many other types of structural electronics for aircraft
5. ENERGY HARVESTING AND REGENERATION
5.1. Definitions and background
5.2. Faradair BEHA
6. ENERGY INDEPENDENT VEHICLES EIV
6.1. Energy independent electric vehicles
6.1.1. Why we want more than mechanical energy independence
6.1.2. The EIV powertrain
6.1.3. EIV operational choices
6.1.4. Turtle airship USA
6.1.5. Solar Impulse Switzerland
6.1.6. Solar Ship inflatable fixed wing aircraft Canada
6.1.7. Sunstar USA
6.1.8. Sunseeker Duo USA
6.1.9. Eviation and their All-Electric Aircraft
6.1.10. The More Electric Aircraft MEA
6.2. Not there yet for large hybrids
6.3. Power electronics in conventional aircraft
6.4. Airliner becomes an electric vehicle when on the ground
6.5. Great potential to improve rotating electrical machines and power electronics
6.6. Future design space: NASA view
7. FLYING CARS: NEEDED OR POSSIBLE?
7.1. Flying cars: needed or possible?
7.2. Aeromobil flying car - flying car from Slovakia in 2020?
7.3. DeLorean VTOL Electric Aircraft
7.4. Airborne and the GyroDrive
7.5. Toyota: fuel cells or flying cars?
7.6. The race is on?
7.7. Flying cars using airports
7.8. Only single seat is viable?
7.9. Combatting urban gridlock: better alternatives
7.10. Hybrid VTOL flying car feasibility
7.11. Elon Musk, Larry Page and Nikhil Goel
8. CAFE TENTH ELECTRIC AIRCRAFT SYMPOSIUM REPORT
Companies Mentioned
- Aeromobil
- Airborne
- Airbus
- Aurora
- BMW
- Boeing
- Cambridge University
- DeLorean
- Fanwing
- Faradair
- GE
- HAX
- HYPSTAIR
- Honda
- Hamilton
- Magnus
- NASA
- Rolls Royce
- Siemens
- Solar
- Sunseeker
- Sunstar
- Toyota
- Turtle
- Uber
- Wright Electric
- Zee.Aero
- Zunum-Boeing
- chAIR
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