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Airbus may make engines for hydrogen fuelled planes, CEO tells paper – Metro US

Airbus may make engines for hydrogen fuelled planes, CEO tells paper

FILE PHOTO: A logo of Airbus is seen at the
FILE PHOTO: A logo of Airbus is seen at the entrance of its factory in Blagnac near Toulouse

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Airbus may make its own engines for its hydrogen fuelled planes, Chief Executive Officer Guillaume Faury told a German newspaper in an interview published on Saturday.

The planemaker has said it plans to develop the world’s first zero-emission hydrogen fuelled commercial aircraft by 2035.

Faury told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper that he could imagine equipping those aircraft with electric motors produced in-house.

“That’s something we could basically do ourselves,” Faury was quoted as saying, speaking of a possible “change of strategy”.

(Reporting by Tom Sims; editing by David Evans)