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VerdeGo Aero's Hybrid-Electric Powertrain Will Drive Airflow's eSTOL Freighter
Airflow is aiming to get its short takeoff and landing, fixed-wing design into production by 2025.
Airflow eSTOL aircraft.
VerdeGo Aero's hybrid-electric powertrain has been selected for Airflow's eSTOL aerial logistics aircraft. (Image: Airflow)

Airflow has selected VerdeGo Aero’s hybrid-electric powertrain system for the aerial logistics eSTOL aircraft that it aims to get into production during 2025. Through a partnership announced on December 1, VerdeGo Aero will provide its diesel (Jet-A) hybrid propulsion system, which combines a 180 kW generator with a high-power battery pack that the Florida-based company says reduces and emissions and fuel burn by 35 percent compared with conventional turbine powertrains.

California-based Airflow announced the launch of its program in June 2020. It says the fixed-wing aircraft will need only a 300-foot runway that could be built alongside a cargo warehouse to support so-called middle-mile connections of between 50 and 300 miles.

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