Ecotug

03/02/2024

Produire du SAF c'est bien, mais le meilleur carburant restera toujours celui qu'on ne consomme pas. Économiser au roulage, c'est possible. https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=876865437777360&set=a.492342076229700

L’Aéroport de Bordeaux et Elyse Energy s'associent pour développer la filière de carburants d’aviation durables en Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Les deux partenaires associent leurs expertises pour accompagner, de la production à Lacq à l’avitaillement à Bordeaux, la politique de transition vers des modes de déplacements aériens décarbonés.

09/12/2023

20/10/2023

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=714354046717264

04/07/2023

La pertinence du concept d'Aircraft Extended Towing Procedure (AETP) proposé par EcoTug a été mise en exergue par le Sustainable Flight Challenge Skyteam 2023 et le roulage moteurs coupés d'un Boeing 787 KLM en configuration commerciale au départ d'AMS pour LAX.
L'outil ayant permis l'économie de 200Kg de carburant et le triple d'émissions de CO2 sur une distance d'1,5km est le Charger 380 100% électrique de notre partenaire Trepel. L'heure d'avancer durablement a sonné. www.trepel.com/looking-forward

Skyteam Sustainable Flight Challenge : KLM 787 extended towing on departure foreshadows the future of the Aircraft Extended Towing Procedure developed by Trepel in partnership with Ecotug.

04/05/2023

La question du roulage des avions est de plus en plus posée. Pour développer de nouvelles pratiques de roulage plus vertueuses, des solutions techniques existent. Elles doivent permettre de rendre progressivement le tractage étendu possible.

07/12/2022

***PRESS RELEASE***

Aviation Sector Starts Follow-Up Sustainable Taxiing Tests at Schiphol.

Schiphol and partners have started conducting follow-up sustainable taxiing tests. At the airport, a KLM plane drove from Schiphol-Centre to and from a platform near the Zwanenburgbaan Runway with its engines switched off. This way of taxiing can significantly reduce fuel consumption and therefore CO2, nitrogen and ultrafine particle emissions. This trial run marks the start of various tests with the two semi-robotic taxiing systems that Schiphol purchased earlier this year.

TaxiBots will be deployed at the airport over the next year and a half. The TaxiBots will take some planes to a location further away from the gate and en route to the runway to start their engines there. Further operational experience with this vehicle will be gained by carrying out pushbacks and by towing empty aircraft.

Polderbaan preparations
According to the original plan, continual test drives to and from the Polderbaan Runway were to have been carried out at the moment. The plan has been modified and now studies, simulations and tests will be carried out over the next eighteen months and as much experience as possible will be gained with the TaxiBots. The aim is to test, introduce and scale up new procedures for sustainable taxiing to and from the Polderbaan, among other locations, from mid-2024.

Sustainable taxiing as standard
Schiphol is striving for sustainable taxiing at the airport in 2030, together with Air Traffic Control the Netherlands (LVNL), KLM, Transavia, Corendon Dutch Airlines, TUIfly and ground handling companies dnata, Swissport, Viggo, KLM Ground Services and TaxiBot provider Smart Airport Systems. The Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management is supporting the initiative. The tests are part of European initiatives within the framework of the ALBATROSS-consortium and its successor: HERON. These subsidy projects aim to make aviation more sustainable.

TLD TaxiBot pictures reproduced with kind permission from Royal Schiphol Group.

29/11/2022

Welcome Norse in Paris.
We are proud of our partnership for the coming Aircraft Extended Towing Procedure tests that we'll proceed soon at CDG Airport. https://simpleflying.com/norse-atlantic-boeing-787-paris-new-york-low-cost/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=Echobox_SF&utm_medium=Social-Distribution&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3hoevNwiJIh6aqiYJ96Tvwe58O8hKZ8Wb8ho8kfQqeFpD5Fq2ztd05MK8 =1669747082

Norse Atlantic has put on sale its first Paris route.

11/10/2022

The TLD / Smart Airport Systems / IAI - Israel Aerospace Industries collaborative TAXIBOT features centerspread of the latest October edition of Ground Handling International.

This ground-breaking environmentally friendly ground support equipment is now being rolled out in Canada.

Check out https://lnkd.in/eq488h2Q for more details.

16/09/2022

Visite chez notre partenaire Trepel au salon GSE Expo Europe et en bonne compagnie afin de poursuivre et préparer les tests à venir. Le GreenTaxiing pourrait prochainement devenir une réalité 🍀

29/07/2022

Green taxiing has many projects on the line. This is good for the future of commercial aviation.
We at Ecotug believe that Aircraft Extended Towing is a key to open the way to a more sustainable practice for ground movements and we are keen to demonstrate it soon.

In the first week of July, the AEON Consortium met in Toulouse at the ENAC facilities to carry out the final evaluation of the operational concept that integrates engine-off taxiing techniques such as TaxiBots, E-Taxi, WheelTugs and Single-Engine Taxiing. The evaluation of AEON's solution began almo...

07/05/2022

Ecotug team in Germany to Discover the Trepel / Rose simulation Chariot simulator designed for the Charger 380 tow tractor