Ben Stabler, the CTO at Heart Aerospace, talks to us about their ES-30 aircraft - a 30 seat independent hybrid regional airliner. In fully electric mode it can fly 200km carrying 30 people - with its turboprop turbines engaged, it can travel 800 km carrying 25 people. It replaces the ES-19 - a fully electric 19 seater - and we talk to Ben about the change, how the new aircraft works, how they predict the market will make use of this aircraft, and the future of aviation.

Ben's a thoughtful, intelligent engineering leader, and he really talked openly about the challenges and what Heart Aerospace is trying to do.

More on Heart Aerospace:

https://www.heartaerospace.com

https://www.youtube.com/@HeartAero

We interview Robert Rowland, Senior Engineer on Joby's charging team about the Global Electric Aviation Charging System. While many electric aviation players choose existing standards, like CCS, Joby's started from first principles and asked themselves "how do you build a charging system for air taxis?"

Many folks know how innovative the Joby JAS4 aircraft is - and they've made choices in charging that are just as innovative.

Dr. Haroon Junaidi is an expert in battery design in mobility, and the person behind the YouTube channel Electric Aviation. In his five years and 112 episodes, he's covered everything from next generation battery chemistry, like aluminum air, to wing designs, laminar flow designs, solid state batteries in aviation, and everything you can imagine.

His work is highly recommended - he covers highly technical concepts brilliantly, an excellent blend of going deep, avoiding jargon, and editing things down to the essentials.

For podcast listeners, especially for fans of the Electric Aviation channel, Dr. Junaidi makes his in person debut on the YouTube version of this podcast at https://www.youtube.com/@skyzeroaviation

If you like this episode, make sure to follow the Electric Aviation channel!

In this interview we'll cover approaches to hybrid electric powertrains, including Ampaire's work on their Electric Eel Skymaster conversion, a series, independent powertrain, and the eco Caravan conversion kit, a parallel hybrid. We talk about how they work, how Ed got started, and even about hybrid jet engines??

For more on Ed check out ampaire.com or linkedin.com/in/edlovelace.

For more on SkyZero.io:

• SkyZero.substack.com
• SkyZero.io - the source for intelligence on electrified aviation

SkyZero.io is the source for intelligence on electric aviation! In the podcast, we'll interview the folks making electric aviation work.

For more:

• SkyZero.io
• SkyZero.substack.com