Rolls Royce to join Airbus and Siemens in building hybrid jet
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Rolls Royce may announce as soon as Tuesday that it has joined forces with Airbus and Siemens to engineer electric drives for airplanes.
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According to Bloomberg, who cited people with knowledge of the matter, the deal could be disclosed as soon as Tuesday.
Initially, Rolls Royce would be tasked with building a two megawatt electric drive.