China Plans Electric Airliner Using New Battery Technology
China is charging ahead with an electric aircraft program and it may have a leg up on the competition because of an emerging battery design. Although they haven’t come up with a production model, Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd., a huge EV battery maker, claims to have been working on a solid state battery that stores up to 500 Mwh/kg. That’s roughly twice the density of the best available batteries currently in production.
A joint venture between the battery developer, the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) and Shanghai Jiaotong University aims to harness all that power and perhaps develop a viable electric airliner. Of course all of these entities are controlled by the Chinese government and the initial budget for the research work is about 80 million. No timelines have been set.
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