Mukhopadhyay: Electric aircraft can only address 0.1% of global passenger kilometers
Jayant Mukhopadhyay · Booking your first zero-emissions flight · Aug 18, 2022 · at 14:25
Aviation researcher Dr. Jayant Mukhopadhyay outlines the decarbonization potential and passenger-kilometer limits of battery-electric flight with Shayle Kann.
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“These electric aircraft in the end don't actually end up playing a significant role in terms of the global aviation market. We're talking about close to like .1% of the global aviation traffic can be serviced by these aircraft. Now that's in terms of sort of passenger kilometers. Now if you're talking about Actual departures. That's more in the range of two to five percent of total departures that can be addressed by these electric aircraft.”
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