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Embraer’s Electric Demonstrator Begins Flight Test Campaign
Embraer has reached a new stage on its journey to a net zero-carbon emissions future. The company has begun a flight test campaign of its electric demonstrator aircraft. Developed to evaluate new technologies and solutions that enable 100 per cent electric and sustainable aeronautical propulsion, the demonstrator conducts tests at Embraer’s facility in Gavião Peixoto, São Paulo, Brazil.
This is a promising step in the scientific and technological cooperation that has brought Embraer together with two renowned providers of electric mobility solutions, WEG and EDP. The open innovation strategy has accelerated the development of the needed technologies to increase the future aircraft energy efficiency through the use and integration of electrical devices into an innovative propulsion system.
Power, performance, control, thermal management, and operation safety were the primary features evaluated in these manned first flights. The goal is to demonstrate real flight conditions through results obtained from computational simulations, lab tests and ground integration of technology, which have taken place since the second half of 2019.
“The first flight of an aircraft is always an important milestone, and the takeoff of our first zero-emission electric aircraft also represents the relevant contribution of our teams and partners to the energy transition of the sector,” said Luis Carlos Affonso, Vice President of Engineering, Technology Development and Corporate Strategy, Embraer. “We are committed to seeking solutions to enable the future of a more sustainable aviation and innovation will play a key role in this journey.”
This technological cooperation project used an electric powertrain system from WEG, and a set of batteries funded by EDP that were integrated into an EMB-203 Ipanema, an aircraft that is part of Embraer’s history. In 2004, it became one of the world’s first aircraft certified and produced in series to fly on fuel from a renewable source (ethanol).
Embraer has a permanent technological development programme, which has enabled efficiency gains in aircraft performance, reducing its consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Research in aeronautical electrification is part of a broader effort to explore a new generation of renewable energy and the transition to a net zero-carbon emissions future.
The knowledge acquired on the electric demonstrator aircraft tests will allow Embraer to develop innovative new products in line with the company’s continuous search for a sustainable future.
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