Japan IHI Corporation announced that it and several domestic partners jointly developed the world’s first one-megawatt-class electric motor mounted inside a jet engine tail cone . This achievement is one fruit of the company’s More Electric Architecture for Aircraft and Propulsion (MEAAP) project.
IHI will keep developing hybrid electric propulsion systems to electrify aircraft, and looks to demonstrate an engine-embedded electric motor during the middle of this decade, the company said. By combining a high-power electric motor for aircraft propulsion (note 6), an electric turbo compressor , a high-flux plastic magnet rotor, and an electric hydrogen turbo-blower, which are also under development, IHI will electrify and optimize a range of propulsion systems, including hybrid electric propulsion systems for the future, and aircraft systems overall.
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