Welcome to the ELECTRIC AIRCRAFT 2024 Exhibition and Conference, where top-level aviation industry leaders will meet with experts in electric and hybrid-electric aviation and advanced air mobility in Munich, Germany, to explore the latest in aircraft electrification technologies and the challenges and breakthroughs shaping the aviation industry’s future.

Greenhouse gas emissions from the aviation sector substantially contribute to global warming. Left unchecked, international aviation will generate an estimated 50 metric gigatons of carbon dioxide by 2050, almost 5% of global emissions. Radical technological leaps must be made to achieve electrification and hybridisation of aerial propulsion systems without compromising performance, safety, and the economics of future aviation development.

Driven by ambitious goals for the future of zero-carbon aviation, electrified aircraft has emerged as a key enabling technology for concepts ranging from electric aircraft to hybrid-electric propulsion systems for urban air mobility. The aviation industry recognizes the need to accelerate developments, certification, and application for electric vertical, short, conventional take-off, and landing aircraft (extoll/eSTOL/eCTOL). Propelled by these technologies and the associated changing mindset of the market and society, electric aviation has evolved from the impossible to the inevitable.