Sustainability of Hybrid-Electric Aircraft System Architectures

Deadline: Apr 28, 2020  
CALL EXPIRED

Electric and hybrid-electric aircraft are expected to disruptively change aviation in the next decades. Potential benefits in terms of noise, emissions and flexibility drive a huge amount of ambitious R&D activities to overcome technological challenges on energy storage, supply and transmission. However, the full life cycle impact of future electric/hybrid aircraft technologies has not yet been addressed sufficiently. Sustainability of materials, processes and resources, efficiency of manufacture and production, lifetime services, as well as the end of life challenge need to be analyzed to evaluate competitive value and environmental impact of electric/hybrid aircraft from a full lifetime perspective. This topic intends to set-up a basic “LCI/LCA-hub” in the European aviation industry to ensure continuity and harmonization for the collection of Live Cycle Inventory (LCI) and Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) as reference related to future electric/hybrid aircraft according to eco-DESIGN Standards. A 70 pax regional class A/C shall be used as target application for harmonization of the system requirements and will set focal nodes on short- mid- and long-term developments for relevant system technologies. Please refer to the full topic descriptions document published in this call.