MIT Building Megawatt-Scale Electric Engine

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are building prototypes of an air-cooled, 1-megawatt electric motor with high specific power that could power future electrified commercial aircraft. NASA research has indicated that motors with a specific power exceeding 13 kW/kg are...

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