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e Personality<br />
Pipistrel also offers a firewall forward modification kit for existing<br />
aircraft which has been sold to several manufacturers.<br />
The Emrax motor in this kit comes from the Slovenian<br />
company ENSTROJ d.o.o and has 40 or 60 kW. Pipistrel<br />
produces the engine and battery controller as well as the<br />
battery pack which are produced from cells which are combined<br />
and controlled in the Pipistrel factory.<br />
One of the secrets to so much innovation and many new<br />
products is Ivo’s team of engineers like his Chief Developer<br />
Tine Tomacic and the Hybrid Program Leader Igor Perkon<br />
which are not only brilliant but also know how to sell their<br />
ideas to others.<br />
Fuel Cell - The Alternative<br />
Fast and elegant: the Panthera is Pipistrels first 4-seat aircraft which will<br />
be offered with combustion engine and as a Hybrid.<br />
The ranking of the challenge was dependent on the fuel per<br />
passenger, so he combined 2 Taurus fuselages with an electric<br />
motor on a middle piece between the fuselages therefore<br />
beating all other competitors which only carried 2 persons.<br />
Also, the second placed E-Genius was based on<br />
the Taurus Motorglider. In 2014 Ivo surprised the aviation<br />
world again at the French Ultralight Tradeshow in Blois in<br />
September when he released the Watts-Up (later called the<br />
Alpha Electro.<br />
Although the energy density has grown a lot over the last<br />
decade the batteries are still the biggest problem in realizing<br />
electric <strong>flight</strong> for everybody. Hybrid with a combustion<br />
engine as a powersource is an option but the aircraft loses<br />
its green footprint because fuel is burned.<br />
Also, here Ivo Boscarol is active with the German National<br />
Aromautic Research Institute when it started the Hy4<br />
Project in October 2015. Partnered with the other companies<br />
is again Pipistrel.<br />
The DLR Aircraft is based on the NASA Green Flight<br />
Challenge winner G4 which is basically two fuselages of<br />
the Taurus Motorglider combined with 2 reinforced Taurus<br />
wings with extended wingspan and a middle part which<br />
Two fathers and a baby: Ivo Boscarol (right) and his<br />
Chief developer Tine Tomazic with the Alpha Electro<br />
When German president Joachim Gauk (left) visited, the Slovenian counterpart<br />
Borut Pahor (right) brought him to Pipistrel.<br />
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