Safran Tests Hybrid-Electric Turboprop

Graham Warwick February 16, 2023
Safran

An electric motor/generator drives the propeller gearbox in the hybrid-electric version of Safran’s Ardiden 3-based Tech TP.

Credit: Safran/Adrien Daste
Safran has run a hybrid-electric turboprop engine under the European Union’s Clean Sky 2 research program. The modified Tech TP technology demonstrator has completed ground tests at Safran Helicopter Engines in Tarnos, France. Based on Safran’s Ardiden 3 turboshaft engine, Tech TP is a demonstrator...
Graham Warwick

Graham leads Aviation Week's coverage of technology, focusing on engineering and technology across the aerospace industry, with a special focus on identifying technologies of strategic importance to aviation, aerospace and defense.

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