EME-Aero CEO Esakov: Russian electric motors will be able to lift vehicles weighing more than a ton
ZHUKOVSKY (Moscow Region), July 24 – RIA Novosti. A new generation of electric motors has been created in the Russian Federation that can lift aircraft weighing more than 1 ton into the air, the CEO told RIA Novosti at the MAKS-2021 air show development company EME-Aero Mikhail Esakov.
“We have developed electric motors that will make it possible to lift into the air and ensure controlled flight of aircraft weighing more than 1 ton, including those with vertical takeoff and landing,” Esakov said.
He added that the company’s electric motors “have shown great interest from several potential customers.” “Negotiations on the conclusion of contracts are underway, and I’m sure they will allow us to reach a good series,” Esakov specified.
“The first large aircraft powered by EME-Aero engines should take to the air as early as next year,” the CEO also said.
The company’s engines, according to the developers, have ultra-low weight and dimensions, high specific power characteristics, which allow you to get rid of the mechanical gearbox, high efficiency – up to 98%. All technologies for their creation are patented in different countries of the world.
One of the promising consumers of electric motors, the company notes, is the aviation industry, because numerous attempts to create aircraft on engines of previous generations were unsuccessful.
At present, electric motors similar in characteristics, but inferior in efficiency to Russian ones, are noted in the EME-Aero company only in the West.
