This week the first Advanced Induction Motor (AIM) was installed in the Royal Navy's Queen Elizabeth Class (QEC) aircraft carrier construction block at shipbuilder BAE System, Glasgow.
The ship has an Integrated Full Electric Propulsion (IFEP) system and uses four 20MW (27,000 hp) electric motors of a similar type to that used in the UK’s Type 45 destroyers. For aspects of stability the diesel gensets are located low in the ship and were delivered at an earlier stage of the construction. [More]