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Thursday, December 25, 2014

#EETimes: "Hybrid Electric/Gasoline Aircraft Recharges its Own Batteries"

The hybrid concept for an electric aircraft makes sense because the gasoline engine can recharge the batteries while its cruising after the electric motors provide the thrust for takeoff: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog and EE Times


The Boeing sponsored glider was retrofit with a gasoline engine and electric motor running in hybrid mode.

FULL STORY AT EE TIMES