A new approach to calculating endurance in electric flight and comparing fuel cells and batteries

Teresa Donateo, Antonio Ficarella, Luigi Spedicato, Alessandro Arista and Marco Ferraro

Applied Energy, 2017, vol. 187, issue C, 807-819

Abstract: Electric flight is of increasing interest in order to reduce emissions of pollution and greenhouse gases in the aviation field in particular when the takeoff mass is low, as in the case of lightweight cargo transport or remotely controlled drones.

Keywords: Fuel cell; Batteries; Electric flight; UAV; Endurance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.11.100

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