{"id":321280,"date":"2025-11-27T09:39:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/airbus\/the-state-of-alternative-propulsion-aircraft-part-3\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T09:39:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:39:37","slug":"the-state-of-alternative-propulsion-aircraft-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=321280","title":{"rendered":"The state of alternative propulsion aircraft? Part 3."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>November 27, 2025, \u00a9 Leeham News:\u00a0<\/strong>In our series about alternative propulsion aircraft, last week we looked at the electric motor of an electric aircraft, which drives propellers or fans. It&#8217;s a component that is straightforward to develop, but the certification requirements for the aircraft and VTOL industry have slowed progress.<\/p>\n<p>Now we look at the component that causes trouble for all alternative propulsion aircraft, except those that burn hydrogen in gas turbine engines: the batteries. Batteries work well in cars, where the requirement for energy capacity relative to weight is much lower and where energy recovery during braking reduces the energy required from the battery.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47110\" style=\"width: 1286px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/leehamnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Alia-CX300-preparing-for-PAS-flight.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47110\" class=\"wp-image-47110 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/leehamnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Alia-CX300-preparing-for-PAS-flight.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1276\" height=\"706\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-47110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 1. The battery-electric aircraft that flies operational trials as we speak, the Beta Technologies Alia CX300. Source: Leeham Co.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Aircraft batteries are a heavy component with very low energy storage capacity. Today&#8217;s aircraft battery system has about 60 times lower energy density per kg or lb than aircraft fuel.<\/p>\n<p>The hope over the last decade has been that this relationship should improve. It has, it\u2019s gone from about 70 times to 60 times in the last 10 years. This will improve further, the question is if it will continue at the slow pace of the last 10 years or not?<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 27, 2025, \u00a9 Leeham News:\u00a0In our series about alternative propulsion aircraft, last week we looked at the electric motor of an electric aircraft, which drives propellers or fans. It&#8217;s a component that is straightforward to develop, but the certification requirements for the aircraft and VTOL industry have slowed progress. 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