June 19, 2024 – 3:32 AM PDT
EVENDALE, Ohio (Reuters) – GE Aerospace (GE.N) is developing a hybrid electric engine with the hopes it will power next-generation narrow-body jets by the middle of the next decade.
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While the technology is still being tested, should GE be successful, it could produce hybrid-engine jets – like a Toyota Prius of the skies – that would go a long way toward cutting the aviation industry’s carbon emissions worldwide, half of which come from single-aisle jets.
Hybrid cars are common on the roads, but decarbonizing the aerospace industry is considered much more difficult. In hybrid engines,…
