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Evolito Chosen by Flying Whales “to Supply Electric Propulsion Motors for Innovative Airships” 

Evoli­to, a UK com­pa­ny pro­duc­ing elec­tric propul­sion motors, has announced today its col­lab­o­ra­tion with France-based Fly­ing Whales, a com­pa­ny devel­op­ing a sus­tain­able car­go-car­ry­ing air­ship, reports a press release.

Evoli­to will pro­vide its ‘state-of-the-art’ D250 elec­tric propul­sion motor for the LCA60T air­ship, due to make its debut test flight in 2027. The LCA60T is 200 metres long and has been designed to trans­port excep­tion­al­ly heavy loads of up to 60 tonnes. 

The release explains, “The air­ship is designed to pro­vide a unique solu­tion for trans­port­ing heavy and over­sized car­go, espe­cial­ly in regions with lim­it­ed infra­struc­ture.” 

By using Evoli­to’s advanced motors, Fly­ing Whales “aims to cre­ate a more effi­cient and envi­ron­men­tal­ly sus­tain­able mode of trans­port, con­tribut­ing to the reduc­tion of green­house gas emis­sions and pro­mot­ing green­er logis­tics prac­tices world­wide,” con­tin­ues the release.

Vin­cent Gui­bout, CEO of the com­pa­ny, com­ment­ed, “When design­ing an air­ship, weight is crit­i­cal. In the three years we have been work­ing togeth­er, Evoli­to has demon­strat­ed the abil­i­ty to deliv­er best in class pow­er den­si­ty from its unique axi­al flux elec­tric motors along with the abil­i­ty to ramp pro­duc­tion to meet our fore­cast require­ments.”

He con­tin­ued, “There is an excel­lent syn­er­gy between our teams as we share the same pas­sion for enabling elec­tric flight through engi­neer­ing excel­lence and inno­va­tion.”

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Fly­ing Whales select­ed Evolito’s D250 elec­tric motor because of its pow­er and torque den­si­ty as well as the abil­i­ty to scale pro­duc­tion to deliv­er the quan­ti­ty of elec­tric motors required.

The motors are the small­est and light­est in their class. The D250 offers indus­try lead­ing pow­er den­si­ty of 18.5kW/kg pro­vid­ing 240kW peak pow­er and weigh­ing 13kg. 

Dr. Chris Har­ris, Evoli­to co-Founder and CEO, remarked, “Fly­ing Whales’ LCA60T air­ship is a tru­ly inspi­ra­tional air­craft. Our unique axi­al-flux tech­nol­o­gy enables a new class of light­weight, com­pact and high-per­for­mance elec­tric motor, open­ing up many new air­craft designs, mis­sion pro­files and use-cas­es, set­ting new stan­dards in elec­tric propul­sion for Aero­space.”

Dr Chris Har­ris

In 2023 Evoli­to was award­ed Design Organ­i­sa­tion Approval by the UK’s Civ­il Avi­a­tion Author­i­ty and is work­ing towards POA and ISO9001 lat­er this year which will help to reduce cer­ti­fi­ca­tion costs for Fly­ing Whales. 

The Air­ship is expect­ed to enter com­mer­cial ser­vice in 2028.

For more infor­ma­tion

http://www.evolito.aero

https://www.flying-whales.com/en/home/

(Top image: Fly­ing Whales’ LCA60T Air­ship)

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