Electric Aviation Group launches fuel cell development spin-off.

Hot on the heels of the December launch of a powertrain business, UK technology firm Electric

Aviation Group (EAG) has set up its second spin-off, this time focused on the development of megawatt-class hydrogen fuel cell systems.

Called Smart Megawatt Stack Fuel Cell Systems (SMS), its creation was spurred by the need for the “enabling technologies” to allow EAG to develop a 90-seat zero-emission aircraft it calls H2ERA.

“We either wait for someone else to mature the technology or take the initiative and develop our own,” says Kamran Iqbal, founder and chief executive of EAG.

SMS’s founding team includes four fuel cell experts from Imperial College London: Professor Nigel Brandon is chief engineer, Professor Anthony Kucernak is chief scientist, Dr Billy Wu is head of design, and Dr Huihzi Wang is head of simulation and analysis.

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