Study: Fuel and carbon taxes key to hydrogen aircraft lift off

Cecilia Keating
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Study: Fuel and carbon taxes key to hydrogen aircraft lift off

Reducing business travel by 50 per cent against 2019 levels could play major role in bringing down cost of transition to sustainable air travel

European flights powered by hydrogen could be cheaper to run than traditional, kerosene aircraft as early as 2035, provided governments enact the right fuel and carbon tax regimes. That is the headline...

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