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Advancing Electrified Flight Research for Subsonic Air Travel

The U.S. DOT Volpe Center’s analysts recently collaborated with NASA to evaluate the market viability of the Hybrid Electric Turboprop Commercial Freighter (HETCOF) concept—a key part of NASA’s vision for electrified aircraft propulsion in subsonic commercial flight.