Rolls-Royce has begun bench tests of its first 320-kW electric motor demonstrator for potential regional aircraft applications. The air-cooled, direct drive motor—which is targeted at electric and ...

Rolls-Royce, best known in aviation for its jet engines, has taken an all-electric airplane on its maiden voyage. The "Spirit of Innovation" completed a 15 minute flight, marking "the beginning of an ...

Rolls-Royce is leading a research project known as Accelerating the Electrification of Flight (ACCEL) to explore the use of a high-power electrical system in a demonstrator aircraft. The goal is to ...

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Geneva 2011: Rolls-Royce 102EX Concept is going to rock down to Electric AvenueNissan's revolutionary self-driving tech hits Japan’s streets ...

Airbus, Siemens, and Rolls-Royce are teaming up to develop a hybrid passenger plane that would use a single electric turbofan along with three conventional jet engines, which would make it the first ...

In the battle of high-thrust engines that power today’s most advanced widebody jets, two names dominate the skies: Rolls-Royce and General Electric (GE Aerospace). These aerospace giants are the ...

Modern technology makes an old Rolls-Royce even more … Rolls-Royce. Rolls-Royce is perhaps the one brand in the world for which electrification makes perfect sense. Right from the very beginning, ...

Wired magazine test drives the Rolls-Royce 102EX Phantom Experimental Electric. April 5, 2011— -- The Rolls-Royce 102EX Phantom Experimental Electric is the most extraordinary EV yet. The list of ...

Electric Car or Electric Rolls? This seems an inappropriate question to ask. There was a time when Rolls-Royce published its horsepower and torque figures as “adequate,” and we all know gentlemen do ...