A new generation of electric motors has been created in Russia that can lift aircraft weighing more than one ton into the air, Mikhail Esakov, CEO of the EME-Aero development company, said at the MAKS-2021 air show.
“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 is quoted by RIA Novosti.
According to him, the company’s electric motors “have shown great interest from several potential customers.” “Contract negotiations are underway and I’m sure they will allow us to have a good streak,” he added.
“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.
Electric motors similar in characteristics, but inferior in efficiency to Russian ones, EME-Aero notes, are available only in the West.
