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Eremenko: Boeing and Airbus must choose hydrogen over hydrocarbons by late 2020s
“In the late 20 twenties, I think it will be absolutely impossible for either of those two companies to say, we're going to launch a brand new airplane that will burn hydrocarbons, right?”
Eremenko: Commercial hydrogen flights will operate globally before 2032
“Long before a decade from now, guy, you will be able to fly on hydrogen with a major regional airline, both in the U S or in Europe or in other parts of the world. For a ticket price that will be equivalent or lower, with the comfort knowing that the airplane …”
Universal Hydrogen expects to retrofit half the target fleet by early 2030s
“We would expect to be able to get through at least half that fleet by the early 20 thirties.”
Eremenko: Universal Hydrogen will fly first retrofit ATR by 2025
“Yes, we are. The long lead item for that is FAA certification, and we have been quite conscientious about bringing the FAA on the journey with us, right? Making sure that we don't just design it and throw it over the wall and say, please certify this, right?”
Eremenko: The ATR 72 will be the first commercial hydrogen airliner
“The airplane we are specifically targeting as the first hydrogen airplane, and which will be the largest hydrogen airplane to enter service, will be the ATR 72, which is about a 50 to 60 passenger airplane, and flies about a thousand kilometers.”
Eremenko: Hydrogen narrow-body aircraft do not need blended-wing airframes
“The volume necessary to power the kinds of flights that these airplanes fly is quite manageable within the confines of an existing sort of tube and wing airplane configuration. You got to lengthen the tube a little bit. You have to add a few meters of length i…”
Eremenko: Building global airport hydrogen infrastructure would cost trillions
“You can't repurpose existing gasoline or kerosene jet fuel infrastructure. You got to recreate it from scratch, and hydrogen molecules are very small. So this is a fairly expensive proposition, and if you multiply it out by the scale of the commercial air tran…”
Universal Hydrogen plans to load modular hydrogen capsules like Amazon packages
“So our idea was let's turn hydrogen into cargo instead of jet fuel, right? So let's put hydrogen in these modular capsules and move these modular capsules the same way we move Amazon packages, right? So let's move hydrogen through intermodal freight. And when …”
Universal Hydrogen has raised just under $100M in capital
“That's about right. Yeah, just south of a hundred.”