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Aerospace

GE’s Passport for NASA Hybrid-Electric development

PR: GE Aerospace (NYSE: GE) is developing a hybrid electric demonstrator engine with NASA that will embed electric motor/generators in a high-bypass commercial turbofan to supplement power during different phases of operation. This includes modifying a Passport engine with hybrid…

Addison Schonland
June 19, 2024

Aerospace, Boeing, GE Aerospace, GE Passport, General Electric, SAAB

GE NASA electric test airplane

In 2016, NASA announced its X-57 project. Then in June 2023, the project was canceled without a single test flight. NASA believes that even without any test flights, the program succeeded because it figured out how to solve numerous problems.…

Addison Schonland
July 25, 2023