Airbus brakes on hydrogen, however doesn’t surrender the thought: “Towards zero emissions” | EUROtoday

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Do not inform Airbus that the regional aircraft undertaking powered by hydrogen is suspended: “It is only postponed pending the ecosystem to be ready to receive it”. The identical goes for the Aero Taxi City Airbus Nextgen, the EVTOL of the European producer: “We continue to invest in both projects,” stated Airbus Guillaume Faury CEO, however for now no deadline has been set after canceled that of 2035 a month in the past. In the meantime, the world is altering and on this more and more fragmented state of affairs, the aeronautical trade dangers not reaching the purpose of completely eliminating dangerous emissions by 2050. “I don’t think we are wrong to pursue the goal of the grade of emissions by 2050 – said Faury -. Maybe it will take a little more time, but we remain ambitious ».

The occasion was the annual meeting on Airbus’ sustainability, during which the commitment of the aeronautical group was reiterated on the development of a new generation of more green planes within the second half of the next decade. The aviation, which represents 2% -3% of the global emissions of harmful emissions, is one of the most difficult sectors to be deducted, for both technical and infrastructure and regulatory problems that slow down changes in the design.

The reasons for the delay

Faury took the opportunity to explain in detail the reasons for the delay. Although Airbus is able to build the plane it is working on, at the moment the project would not be commercially feasible on a large scale: there is no regulatory framework, nor have progress made towards the production of a sufficient amount of clean hydrogen. “We arrived too early, however the route is the fitting one.”

The use of the SAF (Sustainable Aviation Fuel) remains for now the only available solution, but it is still too expensive and in not sufficient quantities to satisfy the requests in the sector, while on the other side of the ocean the president Donald Trump aims to eliminate subsidies for clean fuels. “It’s not just a matter of technology. It is a matter of will, “stated Bertrand Piccard, scientist and president of the Solar Impulse Foundation, with which Airbus Foundation has made a collaboration.