Rolls-Royce Electrical Testing eVTOL Lift Motor

Rolls-Royce eVTOL lift motor

Rolls-Royce’s lift motor for eVTOL aircraft is air-cooled and direct-drive.

Credit: Rolls-Royce
Rolls-Royce plans to begin ground-testing its lift motor for electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft this month and is under contract to deliver units to Embraer for Eve Air Mobility’s full-scale technology demonstrator. “We are taking this through a few loops in terms of getting to...
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