This is the first and only report to analyse all forms of electric flying vehicle from robot insects to new solar airships, light aircraft and airliners and give timelines to 2021. It covers manned and unmanned aircraft, technology, funding, standards and other aspects for hybrid and pure electric versions across the world. Unusually, we compare what is happening in aviation with progress in land and water based electric vehicles that are in some ways further progressed yet use similar components and powertrains to achieve largely similar objectives.

Aircraft design will never be the same again after the pressure to save the planet, reduce local noise, air and land pollution, reduce dependency on foreign oil and large areas of land for operations and to modernise industry or see it collapse. Belatedly, leaded fuel is being banned for aviation and considerable financial support is now available for the creation of new types of electric aircraft.

In this report we look at the considerable choices of component, system and structure for pure and hybrid electric aircraft, the huge number of projects and the few commercial successes. We examine what will happen over the next ten years. Unusually, we view all this in the light of what is being achieved in electric vehicles for land and water. What is the best selling electric aeroplane and what is the biggest development contract landed for electric aircraft? Why are microturbine range extenders so interesting and will there be a big retrofit market for electric drives in light aircraft? Where are fuel cells for aircraft headed and which types of traction battery are favoured and why? How do smart skin and multiple energy harvesting fit in? Which are the organisations to watch? It is all here.

Key Topics Covered:

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

2. INTRODUCTION

3. STANDARDS

4. BATTERY SWAPPING

5. ENERGY HARVESTING AND WIRELESS CHARGING

6. RECENT PROGRESS BY COMPANY AND COUNTRY, FUTURE ISSUES

7. EXAMPLES OF INFRASTRUCTURE INSTALLATION BY COUNTRY

8. MARKET FORECASTS

Companies Mentioned

Energy harvesting:

- Alpha Energy

- Beautiful Earth

- E-Move

- Envision Solar International

- EVFuture

- Pininfarina

- RRC

- Sanyo

- Solar Bullet train

- Solar Unity Company

- SunPods

- Toyota

- ULVAC

Electricity from the road:

- James Dyson Award

- Innowattech

Wireless charging:

- Conductix-Wampfler

- Energy Dynamics Laboratory

- Evatran

- HaloIPT

- Korea Advanced Institute of Technology

- Nissan

- Presidio Graduate School

- Siemens-BMW

- Singapore A*STAR

- Volvo

- Flanders Drive

- WiTricity and Partners

RECENT PROGRESS BY COMPANY AND COUNTRY, FUTURE ISSUES

- AeroVironment

- APplugs

- Asea Brown Boveri (ABB)

- Better Place Israel /

- Chargemaster

- Coulomb Technologies

- CT&T

- Diamond Aircraft, Siemens, EADS

- Eaton Corporation

- ECOtality

- Elektromotive

- GE

- Green Charge Networks

- Hasetec

- Ingeteam

- JFE Engineering Corporation

- Leviton

- Liberty PlugIns

- Mitsubishi

- NEC Takasago

- Nexco

- Nissan

- PEP Stations

- Robert Bosch

- Schneider Electric

- Siemens

- SwapPack

- Tokyo Electric Power Company

- Toyota

- Voltec

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