“H2FLY Announces Ralph Müller as New CEO”

Ger­many-based H2FLY, a devel­op­er of hydro­gen-elec­tric pow­er­train sys­tems for air­craft, announced this week the appoint­ment of Ralph Müller as its new Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer (CEO), effec­tive from Novem­ber 1st, reports a press release. Com­pa­ny Founder and for­mer CEO, Dr. Josef Kallo, is to tran­si­tion to the role of Chief Tech­nol­o­gy Offi­cer (CTO).

The release explains, “Under Kallo’s lead­er­ship, H2FLY has achieved sig­nif­i­cant mile­stones includ­ing the world’s first liq­uid hydro­gen flight of the HY4 air­craft and the suc­cess­ful devel­op­ment of a high-per­for­mance fuel cell sys­tem for Joby’s hydro­gen-elec­tric eVTOL air­craft.”

It con­tin­ues, “As H2FLY enters a new phase focused on prod­uct devel­op­ment and cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, Müller joins the busi­ness to lend his exten­sive expe­ri­ence in lead­ing inter­na­tion­al organ­i­sa­tions includ­ing Borg­Warn­er and MANN+HUMMEL, to sup­port the accel­er­a­tion of the company’s growth.”

Kallo remarked, “Ralph’s impres­sive track record in devel­op­ing busi­ness­es and organ­i­sa­tions will be instru­men­tal as we con­tin­ue our jour­ney towards hydro­gen-elec­tric, emis­sion-free flight.”

In April 2023, H2FLY reached a mile­stone with its hydro­gen-elec­tric pow­er­train devel­op­ment after suc­cess­ful first fill­ing tri­als with an inte­grat­ed liq­uid hydro­gen tank (Cred­it: H2FLY)

Müller com­ment­ed, “H2FLY’s com­mit­ment to sus­tain­able avi­a­tion aligns per­fect­ly with my own pas­sion for inno­va­tion and envi­ron­men­tal respon­si­bil­i­ty. I look for­ward to lead­ing the incred­i­ble team that Dr. Kallo has built and led for the past decade as we bring hydro­gen-elec­tric propul­sion sys­tems to mar­ket and make a sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tion to a clean­er future.”

The release con­cludes, “As CTO, Kallo will con­tin­ue to dri­ve H2FLY’s sec­tor-lead­ing tech­no­log­i­cal advance­ments, focus­ing on ear­ly-stage tech­nol­o­gy devel­op­ment and strate­gic part­ner­ships.”

Back­ground

Found­ed by five engi­neers from the Ger­man Aero­space Cen­ter in Stuttgart and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ulm, H2FLY is aim­ing to deliv­er the first qual­i­fied, ful­ly hydro­gen-elec­tric air­craft pow­er­train to mar­ket. By tak­ing hydro­gen fuel cell tech­nol­o­gy to the next lev­el, the com­pa­ny plans “to unlock the era of emis­sion-free, sus­tain­able air trav­el.”

In 2021, H2FLY was acquired by Joby Avi­a­tion. Three years lat­er this acqui­si­tion led to a land­mark avi­a­tion moment, when Joby’s eVTOL air­craft com­plet­ed a 523-mile flight using H2FLY’s Hydro­gen-Elec­tric pow­er­train.

Land­mark Event: “Joby com­pletes 523-Mile Flight with Hydro­gen-Elec­tric Air Taxi Demon­stra­tor”

In just a few years, such pow­ered air­craft are expect­ed to be able to trans­port 40 pas­sen­gers over dis­tances of up to 1,240 miles.

For more infor­ma­tion

www.h2fly.de

(Top image: Dr Joseph Kallo, Ralph Müller)

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