The Future of Air Travel: Electric, Hydrogen or SAF?
Aviation is one of the hardest industries to decarbonize. When a large commercial airliner plane takes off, as much as 40% of its total weight can be fuel. Cars can be converted to run on electricity from a battery because only 50kg of fuel needs replacing on a 1,500kg vehicle, it's comparatively trivial. The challenge faced by planes is far greater and will need a selection of long-term solutions including electricity, hydrogen, and SAF.
In this webinar, IDTechEx explains the technical limitations of building electric and hydrogen commercial airliners, highlighting issues around battery weight and low gravimetric energy density, hydrogen's volumetric energy density, the maximum power of electric motors, and more. Through this webinar, IDTechEx reveals what the market opportunities are for electric planes, hydrogen planes, and why SAF will be needed for as long as we want to travel long distances by air.
Key topics covered by this webinar include:
- Weight limits for planes and how much battery can be installed
- Potential ranges that can be achieved with battery power
- Volume limitations for hydrogen
- Potentiation ranges that can be achieved with hydrogen power
- How the air travel market is distributed by flight distance
This webinar shares some of the research from the new IDTechEx report, "Sustainable Future Aviation 2025-2045: Trends, Technologies, Forecasts".
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We will be hosting the same webinar 3 times in one day, so please join which ever session is the most convenient for you.
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Date:
Wednesday 9 October 2024
Duration:
30 minutes
Webinar Times
Session #1 - Asia-Pacific
2:00am (London Time)
Session #2 - Europe
10:00am (London Time)
Session #3 - Americas
5:00pm (London Time)