“Electra Aero Chooses Evolito to Supply Electric Engines for EL9 Ultra Short Hybrid-Electric Aircraft”

Electra.aero has select­ed Oxford­shire, UK-based Evoli­to, a lead­ing devel­op­er of elec­tric engines, gen­er­a­tors and ful­ly-inte­grat­ed propul­sion units (EPUs), to sup­ply the engine for Electra’s EL9 Ultra Short hybrid-elec­tric air­craft, reports a press release. 

The release explains, “Evoli­to will pro­vide Elec­tra with high-per­for­mance EPUs that inte­grate light­weight motors, high-integri­ty motor con­trollers and advanced ther­mal con­trols.”

It con­tin­ues, “Engi­neered for aero­space-grade reli­a­bil­i­ty and effi­cien­cy, these EPUs dri­ve the eight pro­pellers along the edge of the EL9’s wing. This dis­trib­uted elec­tric propul­sion sys­tem enables the EL9’s ultra-high lift, deliv­er­ing low air­speeds and pre­ci­sion land­ings.” 

Marc Allen, CEO of Elec­tra, com­ment­ed, “Evolito’s light­weight, durable and cost-effec­tive design, will pro­vide excep­tion­al long-term val­ue for oper­a­tors through low main­te­nance, long life and proven reli­a­bil­i­ty.” 

The release says, “Using elec­tric engines to blow air over the wing and large flaps sig­nif­i­cant­ly increas­es wing lift at very slow speeds, allow­ing the EL9 to take off and land in just 1/10th of the space need­ed by con­ven­tion­al air­craft. Pow­ered wind tun­nel tests of the EL9’s blown wing have val­i­dat­ed lift coef­fi­cients greater than 20, or sev­en times greater than the range typ­i­cal of unblown wings.”

Electra’s EL9 will use eight Evoli­to elec­tric engines arrayed across the front of the wing to deliv­er the blown-lift that enables the air­craft to take off and land in 150 ft.

Dr. Chris Har­ris, CEO and co-Founder of Evoli­to, remarked, “Our engine tech­nol­o­gy is designed for type-cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and scal­able pro­duc­tion, mak­ing it ide­al­ly suit­ed to sup­port Electra’s vision for clean, acces­si­ble, and effi­cient region­al air trav­el.” 

JP Stew­art, Electra’s Senior VP Prod­uct of Devel­op­ment, added, “Evolito’s EPUs deliv­er excep­tion­al per­for­mance and reli­a­bil­i­ty on a tech­nol­o­gy chas­sis with a proven her­itage.”

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Elec­tra is pio­neer­ing Direct Avi­a­tion, a new mod­el of region­al air mobil­i­ty that saves trav­ellers time, max­imis­es exist­ing infra­struc­ture, and con­nects under­served com­mu­ni­ties. The first tri­al flights are planned for 2027, with cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and com­mer­cial ser­vice entry aimed for late 2029, into 2030 under FAA Part 23 reg­u­la­tions. 

With over 2,200 pre-orders from more than 60 com­mer­cial cus­tomers world­wide, includ­ing both air­lines and heli­copter oper­a­tors, the EL9 is already an in-demand air­craft in the AAM) sec­tor. 

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.electra.aero

https://evolito.aero/

(Top image: EL9’s blown-lift tech­nol­o­gy enables Direct Avi­a­tion, a new mode of air trav­el using hun­dreds of thou­sands of small­er, more acces­si­ble loca­tions, to bypass con­gest­ed air­port hubs and bring air trav­el clos­er to where trav­ellers live, work and play)

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