World’s top three manufacturing companies on Tuesday announced to team up to manufacture hybrid passenger aircraft that will fly in 2020.
Airbus, Rolls-Royce and Siemens would develop the hybrid plane, which would use a single electric turbofan along with three conventional jet engines running on aviation fuel, a Turkish newspaper reported.
The plane is an effort to develop and demonstrate technology that in the future could help limit emissions of carbon dioxide from aviation and reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
The companies said they were looking ahead to the European Union's long-term goals of reducing CO2 emissions from aviation by 60 percent, as well as meeting noise and pollution limits that they said "cannot be achieved with technologies existing today." CO2 — carbon dioxide — is a greenhouse gas that scientists say contributes to global warming.
I think it will take much time!