SkyZero Podcast

In Season Two, we begin tackling the biggest piece of electric aviation - the unmanned kind. Vries Strookman's work with the Urban Sky Lab is world leading in terms of thinking through how cities should approach the challenge. Mentioned: Kennedy Approach: https://www.kennedyapproach.nl/ Opposing Bases Podcast: https://www.opposingbases.com / Arcam: https://arcam.nl/ Fabrications: https://www.fabri...

Jurjen de Jong is an absolute charging pioneer - he founded the GreenFlux EV charging company in 2008 - this is 12 years before the Model Y, and 3 years before even the Nissan Leaf. As such, the decisions they made led to standards that are still in place - the Type 2 AC charging connector for instance. And there was no integration standard, so they had to develop OCPP, now the global standard. Wh...

When I talked to Ben Stabler at Heart Aerospace, it finally clicked for me why they scrapped the all electric ES-19 design for the "independent hybrid" ES-30 - its all about IFR reserves and regional airliner economics - and it turns out those turboprops might not be used much... but they're a mass savings, not dead weight. How?

Matthijs Collard is the co-founder and responsible manager for E-Flight Academy - a modern pilot training company in Teuge Netherlands. They fly 90% of the hours towards a Private Pilots License in electric aircraft, the Pipistrel Velis Electro. They hold several records on SkyZero.io - including most flight hours for a single electric aircraft (beating Joby and BETA), and also for the most electr...

Ben Stabler, the CTO at Heart Aerospace, talks to us about their ES-30 aircraft - a 30 seat independent hybrid regional airliner. In fully electric mode it can fly 200km carrying 30 people - with its turboprop turbines engaged, it can travel 800 km carrying 25 people. It replaces the ES-19 - a fully electric 19 seater - and we talk to Ben about the change, how the new aircraft works, how they pred...

We interview Robert Rowland, Senior Engineer on Joby's charging team about the Global Electric Aviation Charging System. While many electric aviation players choose existing standards, like CCS, Joby's started from first principles and asked themselves "how do you build a charging system for air taxis?" Many folks know how innovative the Joby JAS4 aircraft is - and they've made choices in charging...

Dr. Haroon Junaidi is an expert in battery design in mobility, and the person behind the YouTube channel Electric Aviation . In his five years and 112 episodes, he's covered everything from next generation battery chemistry, like aluminum air, to wing designs, laminar flow designs, solid state batteries in aviation, and everything you can imagine. His work is highly recommended - he covers highly...

In this interview we'll cover approaches to hybrid electric powertrains, including Ampaire's work on their Electric Eel Skymaster conversion, a series, independent powertrain, and the eco Caravan conversion kit, a parallel hybrid. We talk about how they work, how Ed got started, and even about hybrid jet engines?? For more on Ed check out ampaire.com or linkedin.com/in/edlovelace . For more on Sky...

SkyZero.io is the source for intelligence on electric aviation! In the podcast, we'll interview the folks making electric aviation work. For more: SkyZero.io SkyZero.substack.com