Aircraft
Daher Sees Hybrid Electric Aircraft Later in Decade
The French company is preparing to start flights with its Eco Pulse hybrid-electric technology demonstrator and will then decide how to use the technology.
Nicolas Chabbert, Daher senior v-p aircraft and Didier Kayat, Daher CEO, speaking at NBAA-BACE 2022.
Nicolas Chabbert, Daher senior v-p aircraft and Didier Kayat, Daher CEO, speaking at NBAA-BACE 2022.

It will likely be another six years before Daher is in a position to bring a hybrid-electric aircraft to market, based on the France-based company’s latest assessment of the EcoPulse research and development program it is conducting with Airbus and engine maker Safran. By the end of this year, the team expects to have started flight evaluations of the hybrid-electric powertrain using a converted TBM 900 and to have assessed all the lessons learned from this work in 2023.