{"id":8083,"date":"2025-11-04T04:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T04:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/04\/silicon-carbide-based-motor-drive-enables-a-smaller-lighter-electric-aircraft-engine\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T04:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T04:03:09","slug":"silicon-carbide-based-motor-drive-enables-a-smaller-lighter-electric-aircraft-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/04\/silicon-carbide-based-motor-drive-enables-a-smaller-lighter-electric-aircraft-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon carbide-based motor drive enables a smaller, lighter electric aircraft engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Silicon carbide-based motor drive enables a smaller, lighter electric aircraft engine<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A hybrid Cessna 337 taxied down a Southern California runway and lifted into the air. The plane, a type commonly used as an air taxi between islands, had a traditional gas-powered motor in the nose and an electric engine in the back. The electric motor was equipped with an experimental silicon-carbide inverter (motor drive) designed by the UA Power Group.<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2025-11-silicon-carbide-based-motor-enables.html\">Go to techxplore<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon carbide-based motor drive enables a smaller, lighter electric aircraft engine A hybrid Cessna 337 taxied down a Southern California runway and lifted into the air. The plane, a type commonly used as an air taxi between islands, had a traditional gas-powered motor in the nose and an electric engine in the back. The electric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,45],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-8083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-techxplore","tag-techxplore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}