Rolls-Royce is entering new aviation markets to pioneer sustainable power and as part of that mission we will be developing energy storage systems (ESS) that will enable aircraft to undertake zero emissions flights of over 100 miles on a single charge.
In order to deliver this ground-breaking technology, the company is planning an £80m investment in ESS over the next decade, that will create around 300 jobs by 2030 and strengthen its position as the leading supplier of all-electric and hybrid-electric power and propulsion systems for aviation.
Aerospace-certified ESS solutions from Rolls-Royce will power electric and hybrid-electric propulsion systems for eVTOLs (electric vertical takeoff and landing) in the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) market and fixed-wing aircraft, with up to 19 seats, in the commuter market. By 2035, Rolls-Royce is planning to integrate more than five million battery cells per annum into modular systems. These modules will deliver market-leading energy density levels.
Rolls-Royce has been delivering battery solutions for many years and have designed 10 different aerospace battery systems, using state-of-the-art cell technology. Of these batteries, four designs have already flown in three aircraft, accumulating more than 250 hours of flight experience and another two designs will complete their first flight in aircraft in 2021. This includes a battery developed with Electroflight, a UK manufacturing partner in the ACCEL programme, in which the Spirit of Innovation aircraft was built, that is aiming to be the world’s fastest all-electric plane. Both ACCEL and the initial research and technology has undertaken to develop industry leading ESS are being supported by the UK Government through the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI)
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| Hybrid-electric propulsion systems for eVTOLs (electric vertical takeoff and landing) |
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| Rolls-Royce Spirit of innovation Aircraft |
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