Universal Hydrogen’s ATR 72-600 turboprop plane at the company’s engineering and design center at the Toulouse-Blagnac Airport in France. (Courtesy of Universal Hydrogen)
Universal Hydrogen could potentially shake up the regional airline industry in the U.S. and elsewhere by rapidly converting the turboprop planes that service short-line routes to hydrogen propulsion.
Turboprop aircraft are used for interstate and intrastate hops nationwide and globally, constituting a huge initial market for Universal’s drop-in hyrogen-plane conversion kits, and for its proprietary, modular hydrogen capsules, which provide the clean fuel needed to power up the electric motors that would replace combustion engines used today.
Narrow-body, single-aisle turboprops are an ubiquitous part of the global aviation industry, and they’re currently responsible for most aviation…
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