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Leapmotor backtracks to include ICE vehicles

The Chinese manufacturer Leapmotor, which until now has specialised in purely electric cars, will in future also offer all its BEV models with a combustion engine as a range extender that charges the battery. Leapmotor’s change of strategy comes against the backdrop of falling sales. Leapmotor calls the vehicle itself an “EREV”, an Extended-Range Electric […] More…

ZeroAvia tests hydrogen-electric aircraft


ZeroAvia has flown a 19-seat Dornier 228 twin-engine aircraft as a testbed for its full-sized hydrogen fuel cell engine (writes Nick Flaherty). The aircraft was retrofitted to incorporate ZeroAvia’s ZA-600 600 kW hydrogen-electric engine on its left wing, which ran alongside a single Honeywell TPE-331 stock engine on the right. The hydrogen-electric powertrain has two […] More…