“BETA Technologies, GE Aerospace Collaborate to Advance Hybrid Electric Flight”

BETA Tech­nolo­gies announced last week a new col­lab­o­ra­tion with GE Aero­space that includes an equi­ty invest­ment, to advance the devel­op­ment of hybrid elec­tric avi­a­tion by com­bin­ing BETA’s air­craft inno­va­tion with GE Aerospace’s glob­al scale and expe­ri­ence, reports a press release.

Under this agree­ment, the two com­pa­nies aim to devel­op a hybrid elec­tric tur­bo­gen­er­a­tor for advanced air mobil­i­ty (AAM) appli­ca­tions, includ­ing long-range VTOL air­craft, future BETA air­craft, and oth­er poten­tial appli­ca­tions. 

The release explains, “The part­ner­ship brings BETA’s exper­tise in high-per­for­mance, per­ma­nent mag­net elec­tric gen­er­a­tors togeth­er with GE Aerospace’s test­ed tur­bine, cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and safe­ty exper­tise, for large-scale man­u­fac­tur­ing and elec­tri­cal pow­er sys­tems exper­tise.”

Kyle Clark, BETA Tech­nolo­gies’ Founder and CEO, com­ment­ed, “We believe the indus­try is on the precipice of a real step change and we’re hum­bled that GE Aero­space has the con­fi­dence in our team, tech­nol­o­gy and inno­va­tion to part­ner with us.”

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The hybrid solu­tion taps into exist­ing infra­struc­ture and capa­bil­i­ties, such as GE Aerospace’s CT7 and T700 engines, and is expect­ed to bring sig­nif­i­cant enhance­ments in range, pay­load and speed per­for­mance com­pared to oth­er air­craft in the same seg­ment.

Lawrence Culp, Jr, GE Aero­space Chair­man and CEO, remarked, “Part­ner­ing with BETA will expand and accel­er­ate hybrid elec­tric tech­nol­o­gy devel­op­ment, meet­ing our cus­tomers’ needs for dif­fer­en­ti­at­ed capa­bil­i­ties that pro­vide more range, pay­load and opti­mised engine and air­craft per­for­mance.”

Addi­tion­al­ly, the com­pa­ny is to make an equi­ty invest­ment of USD300 mil­lion in BETA, sub­ject to reg­u­la­to­ry approval. GE Aero­space will also have the right to des­ig­nate a direc­tor to join BETA’s Board.

For more infor­ma­tion 

www.beta.team

www.geaerospace.com

(Top image: Kyle Clark, Lawrence Culp Jr, shake hands on their agree­ment)

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