Paths to Flying Fossil Free

With RMI's Co-founder, Amory Lovins

Electric road vehicles (EVs) and electric planes (EPs) are both coevolving rapidly, cross-pollinating designs, technologies, innovators, and supply chains. Surprisingly, EPs—with greater challenges but higher ambition and value—seem to be moving faster. In the past few years, remarkable advances in super efficient, battery-electric, and fuel-cell aircraft have sped competitive range and capacity emergence by a decade if not two. EPs are emulating EVs’ swift journey from bad joke to market winner. Fasten your seat belts: the conventional wisdom that emission-free aviation is impractical is well past its sell-by date.

Amory Lovins is an American writer, energy efficiency guru, physicist, and former chairman/chief scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute. He has written on energy policy and related areas for four decades. 

This seminar is part of the Explore Energy Theme House Explore Energy Series