The Allplane Podcast #42 - with magniX CEO, Roei Ganzarski
If you have been following the electric aviation scene lately, a name keeps popping up all the time: magniX.
To the point that, right when I was editing this podcast, the news came out that magniX is partnering with Vancouver-based Harbour Air and André Borschberg’s Swiss-based H55 venture (a past guest of this podcast!) to certify the first all-electric commercial plane.
In fact, magniX electric motors have been selected to power a whole range of zero carbon aircraft projects currently under development. Whether battery-based, such as Harbour Air’s eBeaver, hybrid, like Faradair’s Beha or using a hydrogen fuel cell, like Universal Hydrogen, it is a magniX electric motor that they are spinning.
In the last few months I have been honoured to host some of these pioneers of green aviation here, on this podcast, so I thought it was just about time I got to speak with magniX to learn more about this firm and see what it is all about.
So Roei Ganzarski, CEO of magniX, volunteered to come on the podcast and share some insights about their technology and views for the future of the electric aviation industry.
Check in for a very interesting conversation with a person with deep expertise of aviation and technology (he’s also got years of experience at Boeing and deep tech startups) who is also familiar, and has been directly involved, with some of the most interesting green aircraft projects currently under development all over the world!
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Things we talk about in this episode:
Roei’s background and trajectory in the aviation industry
The story of magniX: how this Australian startup moved to the US to become a leader in electric propulsion
The different green flight projects that magniX is involved in
How magniX motors powered the first ever all-electric commercial flight
The new era of innovation in aviation
France’s ban on short haul flights and how this affects green aviation
Eviation Alice’s and its expected first flight
How magniX works with electric flight innovators and entrepreneurs from around the world
How to partner with magniX
What’s ahead for magniX
Resources:
Harbour Air’s eBeaver, which conducted the first all-electric commercial flight fitted with a magniX powertrain
Several of our podcasts featuring users of magniX technology:
My CNN article featuring Eviation, an interesting electric aviation project
France’s ban on some short haul flights that have a rail alternative available
The podcast that I mention with the head of the Norwegian airports’ carbon reduction programme
The announcement that magniX is partnering with Harbour Air and H55 to certify an all-electric commercial plane (this came right after the podcast was recorded, and you will note how Roei refers to some upcoming projects that can’t disclose yet. It was made public while I was about to publish the podcast, so just in time to include it here!)
My podcast with André Borschberg, of H55
Podcast Music: Five Armies by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3762-five-armies
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Interview Transcript
(please note that, although we strive to make it as close as possible to the original recording, the transcript may not be 100% accurate)
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