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Abstract

Electromobility and especially airmobility is increasing its share among all transportation sectors. Along the process, hydrogen-electric propulsion relying on polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells as a most promising and key disruptive solution, is gradually stretching its popularity among aircraft belonged to more segments. However, in the trend, aviation still put stringent requirements on the 1) efficiency, 2) specific power, 3) specific energy, and 4) reliability, of these fuel cell systems. This talk will firstly give a review on our contributions in the knowledge base in the past 4 years working on the abovementioned 4 indexes, as well as an overview of the research and industrial communities. Then our short-term and media-term solutions and proposals on tackling with these challenges will be the rest part of this talk. This talk will also introduce briefly my personal vision on the hydrogen-electric aviation activities to be carried out in the under-construction MARI-Space (Morocco Aerospace Research Institute) of UM6P.