Comment on CATL battery successfully powers electric plane with 1,800-mile civil aircraft expected
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months agoPossibility for private planes, but none for commercial planes. Just imagine a commercial passenger plane or cargo plane that needed a giant amount of electricity and like 12 hours of charging in between every flight.
Then, for safety reasons you’ll need to have two batteries in case one goes bad.
Aux@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You can simply do battery swaps. Plane refueling already requires heavy machinery and industrial scale. I bet battery swaps will be faster than refueling.
TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 3 months ago
And, no more tedious fuel calculations, just charge it all the way up, it doesn't add any extra weight to do so.
jacksilver@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Oddly enough I do actually think a charged battery is heavier, just as a full hard drive is heavier. But not to a degree that would matter.
toolsweek.com/do-batteries-weigh-more-when-charge…
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
That article you linked is utter trash, but it is correct about battery weight of a charged battery…technically…very technically…barely.
Like, a 4,000 mah lithium battery fully charged should weigh about 30 picograms more than when dead.
To put 30 picograms into perspective; a single 5 inch long human hair weighs around 0.04 grams. Well that’s 40,000,000,000 picograms.