Lyte Aviation Selects H3 Dynamics Battery for 40-Seat Flying Taxi
Lyte Aviation Selects H3 Dynamics Battery for 40-Seat Flying Taxi A few months after being selected by Airbus to equip a demonstrator based on an A330, the French firm H3…
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Evia Energy and Cranfield Aerospace Partner to Develop Hydrogen Infrastructure at Airports
Evia Energy and Cranfield Aerospace Partner to Develop Hydrogen Infrastructure at Airports The agreement provides for the development of infrastructure to accommodate both future electric and hydrogen-powered aircraft, anticipating the…
Destinus Reaches Milestone by Successfully Igniting Turbo Reactor with Hydrogen Gas
Destinus Reaches Milestone by Successfully Igniting Turbo Reactor with Hydrogen Gas The Swiss start-up, which is developing a hydrogen-powered supersonic aircraft, believes it has reached a new milestone. It has…
Airbus adds London Gatwick Airport to its network of hydrogen hubs
Airbus adds London Gatwick Airport to its network of hydrogen hubs The European aircraft manufacturer has announced a partnership with London Gatwick, EasyJet and Air Products to extend its hydrogen capabilities and…
First long-distance flight for this liquid hydrogen-powered flying taxi
First long-distance flight for this liquid hydrogen-powered flying taxi The American company, Joby, completed a flight on 24 June over California with a liquid hydrogen version of its electric flying…
Hydrogen aircraft: Airbus wishes to open a hub in Spain
Hydrogen aircraft: Airbus wishes to open a hub in Spain With the help of Aena, Air Nostrum, Iberia, Exolum and Repsol, Airbus will be studying the creation of the first…
A more realistic blueprint for Blue Spirit Aero to bring hydrogen-powered aircraft to fruition
A more realistic blueprint for Blue Spirit Aero to bring hydrogen-powered aircraft to fruition In the wake of Universal Hydrogen's difficulties, we asked Olivier Savin, founder of Blue Spirit Aero,…
Wings clipped for bankrupt Universal Hydrogen
Wings clipped for bankrupt Universal Hydrogen The start-up that wanted to make a plane with liquid hydrogen modules has not succeeded to convince new investors. So it has had to…
Aviation: over 50% of flights in zero-emission mode by 2050?
Aviation: over 50% of flights in zero-emission mode by 2050? The Alliance for Zero-Emission Aviation (AZEA) presented its vision of electric and hydrogen-powered flights in Europe at the ILA Berlin…
Haffner Energy to produce sustainable fuels in the USA
Haffner Energy to produce sustainable fuels in the USA The French company has just set up a US subsidiary. Haffner Energy intends to capitalise on the favourable environment of the…
IPCEI Hy2Move: Europe approves €1.4 billion in aid from 7 countries
IPCEI Hy2Move: Europe approves €1.4 billion in aid from 7 countries The European Commission has approved, under EU state aid rules, Hy2Move, a fourth Important Project of Common European Interest…
Airbus takes hydrogen aircraft to a new level with supraconductivity
Airbus takes hydrogen aircraft to a new level with supraconductivity Airbus Upnext announces a new demonstrator. The aim is to accelerate the maturity of the supraconducting technologies to be used…
Airbus talks hydrogen at VivaTech
Airbus talks hydrogen at VivaTech Airbus is present at VivaTech, where it is presenting a fuel cell, and will be taking part in a round-table discussion on the future of…
Airbus to turn several airports into hydrogen hubs in North America
Airbus to turn several airports into hydrogen hubs in North America In three separate press releases, Airbus has announced agreements with the US airports of Atlanta and Houston and the…
GOLIAT: an Airbus-led project to test liquid hydrogen refuelling at three airports
GOLIAT: an Airbus-led project to test liquid hydrogen refuelling at three airports The project, supported by academic partners, airport operators and leading companies in the hydrogen industry, has been launched…
Airbus to equip A330 with 500 kW fuel cell from H3 Dynamics
Airbus to equip A330 with 500 kW fuel cell from H3 Dynamics As part of its Airbus UpNext organisation, which develops the technologies for the future, Airbus has selected French-founded…
The UK’s HIA alliance says hydrogen is inevitable in air transport
The UK's HIA alliance says hydrogen is inevitable in air transport According to the Hydrogen In Aviation alliance, HIA, which includes Airbus, Easyjet, Rolls-Royce and other partners, SAFs are merely…
A €3.7 million fundraising for HyLight, the hydrogen airship
€3.7 million in funds for HyLight hydrogen airships Backed by one of the co-founders of Tesla, the start-up has managed to convince investors. HyLight will be able to develop hydrogen…
ZeroAvia is preparing a global retrofit network for its hydrogen-powered aircraft
ZeroAvia is preparing a global retrofit network for its hydrogen-powered aircraft While start-up ZeroAvia recently joined a hydrogen propulsion task force launched by the UK government, it has announced an agreement with…
Hydrogen aircraft: Japan joins the race
Hydrogen aircraft: Japan joins the race Japan's economy minister has unveiled a plan to develop a next-generation aircraft by 2035. This Japanese-style Airbus will be allocated a budget of $33…
Europe: a €1 billion call for projects for alternative fuels including hydrogen
Europe: a €1 billion call for projects for alternative fuels including hydrogen Under the umbrella of the CEF* mechanism for European interconnection, a call for projects has been launched to…
Cranfield Aerospace Solutions successfully integrated its fuel cell in an aircraft
Cranfield Aerospace Solutions successfully integrated its fuel cell in an aircraft Cranfield Aerospace Solutions (CAeS), a UK-based company which is developing hydrogen propulsion system technology for aircraft, has just reached a…
ZeroAvia selected by UK Civil Aviation Authority to work on hydrogen readiness
ZeroAvia selected by CAA to prepare for hydrogen arrival The American start-up is among the 3 companies selected by the British administration, along with Cranfield Aerospace Solutions and Exeter Airport.…
Successful ground test for Universal Hydrogen, simulating liquid hydrogen supply to a regional aircraft
Successful ground test for Universal Hydrogen, simulating liquid hydrogen supply to a regional aircraft Universal Hydrogen, the start-up specialised in hydrogen aircraft, ran a MW powertrain on the ground using…
Beyond Aero: The first hydrogen-powered aircraft to fly in France
The first successful hydrogen-powered flight in France French, Toulouse-based start-up, Beyond Aero, announced its first successful flight of a hydrogen aircraft named Blériot, in honour of the first aviator to…
Airbus sees Singapore as a future hub for hydrogen-powered aircraft
Airbus sees Singapore as a future hub for hydrogen-powered aircraft A committee involving Changi airport and the civil aviation authorities has concluded that the South Asian city-state could play a…
Aerodelft: a small liquid hydrogen aircraft by Delft University
Aerodelft: a small liquid hydrogen aircraft by Delft University As part of Go Hydrogen in Antwerp, of which Hydrogen Today is a partner, students are presenting their Aerodelft project. It is…
Airbus welcomes competition in hydrogen-powered aircraft
Airbus welcomes competition in hydrogen-powered aircraft As it presented its results, the European aircraft manufacturer was asked about its ambitions in terms of hydrogen. And the date of 2035 was…
Airbus to prepare Sweden and Norway to receive hydrogen-powered aircraft
Airbus to prepare Sweden and Norway to receive hydrogen-powered aircraft The European aircraft manufacturer has signed a memorandum of understanding with several partners (Avinor, SAS, Swedavia and Vattenfall). The aim…
Lhyfe delves into SAF in Le Havre with a Canadian consortium
Lhyfe delves into SAF in Le Havre with a Canadian consortium At Hyvolution, the producer signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the international group SAF+ in an effort to…
A Genvia Airbus agreement on SAF
A Genvia Airbus agreement on SAF Right before the Hyvolution show, the two partners announced their agreement. Genvia, a company that develops high-temperature electrolysers, will be producing low-carbon hydrogen which…
Bordeaux Airport and Elyse Energy partner up for sustainable aviation fuels
Bordeaux Airport and Elyse Energy partner up for sustainable aviation fuels The two partners will bring together their expertise from production in Lacq to refuelling in Bordeaux in order to…
Hydrogen mobility: A strong presence at Hyvolution 2024
At Hyvolution, the European hydrogen show, attending mobility players should cover all application fields, from bikes to lorries passing by forklift trucks and even rockets. Key players in the automobile…
Airbus steps forward on hydrogen aircraft
Airbus steps forward on hydrogen aircraft While the aerospace pioneer prepares to open a new ZEROe center in Germany specialised in composites for future liquid-hydrogen tanks, technical officer at Airbus…
ZeroAvia partners with Verne to look into cryo-compressed hydrogen in aviation
ZeroAvia partners with Verne to look into cryo-compressed hydrogen in aviation The start-up specialised in hydrogen aviation partnered up with Verne, an American company specialised in high-density hydrogen storage systems.…
BSR HyAirport: the hydrogen aircraft is coming to the Baltic Sea
BSR HyAirport: the hydrogen aircraft is coming to the Baltic Sea This European project, which will run until October 2026, has officially begun. It brings together 16 partners, including airports,…
At least, an agreement on SAF was signed during the COP28
At the climate conference, which ended on December 12, 2023, around a hundred countries have proposed a 5% reduction in CO2 emissions from aviation by 2030, based on sustainable aviation…
COP28: Masdar stocks up on hydrogen-related contracts
COP28: Masdar stocks up on hydrogen-related contracts As part of the COP28, Masdar, the Emirates' renewable energy company*, has signed a number of hydrogen-related contracts. While climate is being discussed…
ZeroAvia raises $116 million as part of a Series C funding round
On November 27, 2023, ZeroAvia announced that it has completed its Series C funding round amounting to $116 million. ZeroAvia is on a hot streak! Giant Airbus invested in the…
Heven’s hydrogen-powered drones make a big impression in Monaco
Hydrogen-powered drones from Heven make a big impression in Monaco As part of the Monaco Hydrogen Forum, Heven - a company based in Israel and the USA - is exhibiting…
Successful first flight for Airbus’ hydrogen engine
Successful first flight for Airbus' hydrogen engine On 8 November, a glider from Airbus equipped with a combustion engine powered by hydrogen made a flight in Nevada (United States). This…
Hyundai makes the case for flying taxis (including hydrogen ones)
Hyundai makes the case for flying taxis (including hydrogen-powered ones) The head of the Hyundai's air mobility division, who is also the CEO of Supernal, spoke at the Bloomberg forum…
Universal Hydrogen showcased its hydrogen capsules in Blagnac
This week, Universal Hydrogen gave an operational demonstration of the loading and unloading of its modular hydrogen capsules on board an ATR 72. At the same time, it also unveiled…
Europe needs to move faster on SAF
As part of the Roissy-Meaux aeronautics park meetings, the panel on aviation discussed synthetic fuels. When it comes to SAF Europe is lagging behind. While we wait for hydrogen-powered aircraft…
French airports to be supplied with hydrogen from ADP and GRTGaz
As the Roissy-Meaux aeronautics park meetings get underway today, GRTGaz is announcing the launch of a study with ADP (Paris airports) to bring hydrogen to the French airports of Orly…
Hydrogen capsules are becoming a trend
Universal Hydrogen is exploring the possibility of using hydrogen capsules for its aircraft, but also for other mobility applications. The solution could be more practical than conventional tanks. The idea…
Hydrogen aircraft: Airbus invests in ZeroAvia
European aviation giant Airbus has embarked on a major partnership with ZeroAvia, the UK start-up specialising in hydrogen-powered aircraft. Alongside Barclays and Saudi company Neom, Airbus has invested in the…
Hydrogen airport: a joint venture between ADP and Air Liquide
On 16 June, during the tenth Paris Air Forum*, Air Liquide and the ADP Group announced the creation of "Hydrogen Airport." Hydrogen airport: the new joint venture between ADP and…
The HySky conference lands at Le Bourget
Meet4Hydrogen, which organises Hyports, is setting up a conference today and tomorrow on the theme of aircraft and space. This new Hysky conference is taking place at Le Bourget. The…
Ecojet will make hydrogen retrofitted aircraft fly
Ecojet will make hydrogen retrofitted aircraft fly A campaigner for green energies, British entrepreneur Dale Vince wants to launch Ecojet, the first airline to offer hydrogen-powered flights. But the aircraft…
Haffner Energy to offer a SAF solution for aircraft
As a producer of renewable hydrogen from biomass, Haffner Energy has announced that it is in discussions with leading players in the aviation sector (airlines, technology suppliers and project developers)…
French people are optimistic about zero carbon aircraft survey says
French people are optimistic about zero carbon aircraft survey says According to a survey carried out on behalf of GIFAS at the Paris Air Show, the French seem to think…
Airbus announces two advances on hydrogen
At the Paris Air Show, Airbus highlighted two advances on hydrogen : the fuel cell as an auxiliary generator and the hydrogen-powered gas turbine. Airbus: significant advances on hydrogen technology…
Hydrogen aircraft on the agenda of the AZEA at the Paris Air Show
Hydrogen aircraft are on the agenda of the AZEA at the Paris Air Show As you may know, the Paris Air Show started last Monday morning ( June 19). As…
France has an ambitious roadmap for low-carbon aviation
Since the Paris Air Show is in full swing, now is a good time to talk about the roadmap for low-carbon aviation. The sector, which accounts for 2.5% of CO2…
Paris Air Show: Air France goes beyond regulations on SAF
As the Paris Air Show opens today, Air France is speaking out on SAF (sustainable aviation fuels). Air France makes an announcement on SAF at the Paris Air Show Air…
Macron announces a plan for low-carbon aircraft
Emmanuel Macron announced a plan for low-carbon aircraft. During a visit to the Safran Aircraft Engines plant at Villaroche in the Seine-et-Marne region on Friday, the French President said that…
Airbus to use green hydrogen based SAF from Masdar
Airbus to use green hydrogen based SAF from Masdar Masdar, Abu Dhabi's showcase city, has signed an agreement with Airbus to develop sustainable aviation fuels based on green hydrogen. The…
Will the cost of hydrogen aircraft decrease from 2035?
Will the cost of hydrogen aircraft decrease from 2035? Despite not being an avid proponent of hydrogen, the association Transport & Environment has published a new study showing that the…
ReFuelEU Aviation: new agreement on synthetic fuels
ReFuelEU Aviation: new agreement on synthetic fuels This week, an agreement was reached between the Council and the European Parliament to set thresholds for renewable fuels in the aviation sector.…
ZeroAvia gets into liquid hydrogen with Absolut
The American start-up ZeroAvia has entered into a partnership with the Absolut group for the storage and distribution of liquid hydrogen in airports. It has nothing to do with vodka...…
A hypersonic hydrogen aircraft from Destinus?
Swiss start-up Destinus is developing a hypersonic hydrogen aircraft. A project that may seem crazy, but... Everyone remembers the Concorde: a supersonic aircraft that took only 3 hours to fly…
Will Amelia be the first hydrogen airline?
On its website , the airline reveals that it wants to use aircraft retrofitted by Universal Hydrogen and also use synthetic fuels. You can read it on the blog section of the…
First successful flight for Universal Hydrogen’s aircraft
On March 2, the U.S. start up, Universal Hydrogen, flew an ATR 75 retrofitted aircraft. This is an important step for the company, which has requests to convert nearly 250…
Airspeeder: The first hydrogen flying F1 is Australian?
Here is a competitor for MACA, a French aviation and aerospace component manufacturer. Indeed, Alauda Aeronautics, based in Adelaide (Australia), has designed a flying race car that runs on hydrogen.…
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Nidec to become a partner of Airbus’ H2 aircraft
Nidec to become a partner of Airbus’ H2 aircraft Nidec-Leroy Somer, the subsidiary of the Japanese group Nidec, has announced that it has been selected to develop electric motors for…
ZeroAvia made a 19-seat hydrogen retrofitted aircraft fly
As it had been announced, the American start-up made its first official flight in Great Britain. ZeroAvia made a 19-seat hydrogen retrofitted aircraft fly. A world first. The flight took…
BioTJet is to turn into a company
The SME Elyse Energy is joining forces with partners to produce synthetic molecules and thus provide sustainable fuels for aviation. The BioTJet project, which is derived from the BioTfueL* technology,…
H2 Today talk : Blue Spirit Aero will be ready in 2026
Hydrogen Today brings you a new video talk. This time we interviewed Olivier Savin, founder of Bleu Spirit Aero, with whom we reviewed the latest news on hydrogen in the…
Hydrogen makes tongues wag at Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show
There are no hydrogen cars to be seen at this year's famous technology show. However, this form of electrification is taking to the skies. On the ground, Symbio (a subsidiary…
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Hydrogen Today interviewed on a French radio As a reference information site, Hydrogen Today is sometimes asked to comment on hydrogen news. And this is what happened on France Bleu Touraine this very morning.…
Zeroavia has the green light to fly in England in 2023
Zeroavia has the green light to fly in England in 2023 The start-up, which is based both in the United States and the United Kingdom, has received a flight licence…
Fuel cells, refuelling stations : Airbus is moving forward on hydrogen
The aircraft manufacturer, Airbus, is very active in the field of hydrogen. It has just unveiled a fuel cell propulsion system while preparing for the coming of hydrogen at the…
Rolls-Royce and Easyjet test an H2 engine
The British luxury automobile maker and the low-cost airline have announced a world first in aviation. The two partners have powered a modern combustion engine with green hydrogen. Hydrogen mobility…
Hylight launches the hydrogen airship
This start-up, which was founded this very summer, proposes to replace helicopters with a zero-emission airship to monitor sensitive infrastructures such as gas pipelines and high-voltage lines. This is a…
Blue spirit aero’s ambition takes off
‘La Tribune’, a French weekly financial newspaper, revealed in an article that the start-up founded by Olivier Savin (former Dassault employee) has the ambition to produce hundreds of small hydrogen-powered…
Alliance for Zero Emission Aviation: already 74 members
On September 26, the European Commission released the list of initial members participating in the Alliance for Zero-Emission Aviation (AZEA). The 74 members include players committed to hydrogen. Unsurprisingly, the…
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Lyon Saint-Ex airport gets ready for hydrogen
Following a similar agreement with the group ADP (Paris Airports), Airbus and Air Liquide have announced a partnership with VINCI Airports. These three major players are going to work together…
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Beyond Aero plans a flight of its two-seat demonstrator in 2022
We've already told you about this start-up founded in 2020 by two alumni of the ISAE-SUPAERO (National Higher French Institute of Aeronautics and Space) and the École Polytechnique (polytechnic). According…
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French hydrogen technocampus in Francazal is moving forward
The projet for a technocampus dedicated to green hydrogen -due in 2024 on the former military airport of Francazal- has taken another step forward this very August according to…
Green light for the Hy4 hydrogen aircraft in Germany
Green light for the Hy4 hydrogen aircraft in Germany Having successfully completed test flights, the first four-seater passenger aircraft powered solely by a hydrogen fuel cell battery system was unveiled…
Airbus targets 2030 for hydrogen in airports and on board
Airbus targets 2030 for hydrogen in airports and on board In a recent press release, the company reminds that an electrolyser capacity of 40 GW in the EU is expected…
Hydrogenics will supply a fuel cell for a lightweight aircraft
Hydrogenics will supply a fuel cell for a lightweight aircraft Hydrogenics Corporation, a leading developer and manufacturer of hydrogen generation and hydrogen fuel cell power systems, announced that it has…
The French Occitania Region joins the worldwide hydrogen concert
Since yesterday, Occitania, the new French region which merges the former Midi-Pyrénées and Languedoc Roussillon regions, has officially and publicly become a “Hydrogen Territory”. At the Hotel de Region in…
A new record for a hydrogen powered drone
A consortium of Singaporean institutions and private sector companies* have worked jointly to achieve a record 6 hour endurance, 300 km flight on the Skyblade 360 UAV built in Singapore…
First Solid-state Hydrogen UAV Test Flight completed in UK
The Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) completed a test flight using Cella’s hydrogen based power system. The system is based on the British company’s solid, lightweight hydrogen storage material…
Hydrogen range extender applied to drones at CES
It should be one of the highlights of next CES, January 6-9 in Las Vegas : Intelligent Energy has developed a prototype of a hydrogen fuel cell powered range extender…
Here comes the hydrogen-powered drone
Here comes the hydrogen-powered drone Horizon Unmanned Systems, a company that specializes in merging advanced energy systems with UAV platforms, has unveiled HYCOPTER. The company claims is the world’s first…
