El especialista en propulsi\u00f3n el\u00e9ctrica de aviones ZeroAvia anuncia haber recaudado $24,3 millones (20,5Mn\u20ac) en una nueva ronda de financiaci\u00f3n para el desarrollo de aviones de hidr\u00f3geno. El capital fresco procede del nuevo inversor British Airways, as\u00ed como de varios financiadores ya existentes, entre ellos Breakthrough Energy Ventures y Shell.<\/p>\n
ZeroAvia se\u00f1ala que la nueva ronda de financiaci\u00f3n fue liderada por Horizon Ventures con Ecosystem Integrity Fund, Summa Equity y SystemiQ tambi\u00e9n a bordo. Esto eleva la inversi\u00f3n privada total de la compa\u00f1\u00eda a m\u00e1s de $53 millones y la financiaci\u00f3n total recaudada desde su creaci\u00f3n a casi $74 millones o m\u00e1s de 62Mn\u20ac.<\/p>\n
ZeroAvia pretende utilizar los fondos para acelerar el desarrollo de motores el\u00e9ctricos de hidr\u00f3geno m\u00e1s grandes para aviones de m\u00e1s de 50 plazas. Esto sigue a la anuncio en diciembre<\/a> que el Departamento de Energ\u00eda Empresarial y Estrategia Industrial (BEIS) del Gobierno brit\u00e1nico, el Instituto de Tecnolog\u00eda Aeroespacial (ATI) e Innovate the UK, hab\u00edan concedido una subvenci\u00f3n de 12,3 millones de libras ($16,3 millones) para desarrollar un avi\u00f3n de 19 plazas propulsado por hidr\u00f3geno-el\u00e9ctrico que estar\u00e1 listo para el mercado en 2023. La empresa anunci\u00f3 simult\u00e1neamente su ronda de financiaci\u00f3n de serie A de $21,4 millones, junto con la apertura de nuevas oficinas en el Reino Unido.<\/p>\n La empresa cree que es realista disponer de ejemplos de aviones H2 con m\u00e1s de 100 plazas y m\u00e1s de 1.600 kil\u00f3metros de autonom\u00eda para 2030.<\/p>\n Sean Doyle, consejero delegado de British Airways Sean Doyle fue m\u00e1s conservador al afirmar que BA cre\u00eda que el hidr\u00f3geno ten\u00eda \"el potencial de permitirnos alcanzar unas emisiones cero reales en las rutas de corto recorrido para 2050\".<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" El especialista en propulsi\u00f3n el\u00e9ctrica de aviones ZeroAvia anuncia haber recaudado $24,3 millones (20,5Mn\u20ac) en una nueva ronda de financiaci\u00f3n para el desarrollo de aviones de hidr\u00f3geno. El capital fresco procede de nuevos<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":152611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13096],"tags":[22091,3117,15713,22092,11638,7098,7097,22919,862,22920,22921,18266],"class_list":["post-152624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air","tag-breakthrough-energy-ventures","tag-british-airways","tag-drives","tag-ecosystem-integrity-fund","tag-electric-aircraft","tag-fcev","tag-fuel-cell","tag-horizons-ventures","tag-shell","tag-summa-equity","tag-systemiq","tag-zeroavia"],"acf":{"inhalt_teil2":" ZeroAvia expects to achieve commercialization for its hydrogen-electric powertrain as early as 2024 by initially targeting a 500-mile range in 10-20 seat aircraft used for commercial passenger transport, package delivery, agriculture, and beyond. A first H2 plane had completed its maiden flight in September 2020<\/a>\u00a0as part of the HyFlyer project supported by the British government at Cranfield, located east of Milton Keynes.<\/p>\n Next-gen models will have up to 80 seats and 800 kilometres of range as early as three years after the 2023 interim stage. “Accelerated by this new capital infusion, ZeroAvia will also target entering the 50+ seat commercial aircraft segment by 2026,” the company states.<\/p>\n The company also builds expertise on the Boards with three new members. Christine Ourmi\u00e8res-Widener brings experience from her time as Vice-President and GM USA for Air France-KLM, CEO and board member of CityJet, Chief Global Sales Officer of American Express Global Business Travel and CEO of FlyBe. She previously served on the Board of Governors for the International Air Transport Association (IATA). On the Technical Advisory Board now sits Mike Friend, a retired Boeing Technology Director and consultant for Mitsubishi Aircraft to lend his aerospace knowledge to ZeroAvia’s powertrain development programs. There is also Mark Blair, a retired FedEx VP of Air Operations and a former Director of Fleet & Government Sales for Cessna. He will advise ZeroAvia on package delivery applications of various sizes of aircraft.<\/p>\n