Comment by rootusrootus
4 hours ago
I'd be stunned if they put a MWh of battery on a plane. This plane in particular only has a range of 120 miles electric-only, so it probably has a pack roughly similar to a modern electric pickup. 200 kWh plus or minus.
By comparison, a regular regional jet probably has around 40 MWh of energy in jet fuel.
IF they end up the size of modern jets, 1MWh is underestimating the need for even an average domestic flight.
Agreed, a full size electric airliner is going to be a different beast entirely. On the bright side, by the time we crack that nut I hope we will be using battery technology with less combustion potential than even LFP.
I don't think there's really any avoiding the combustion potential of that much energy in a compact container. We can maybe hope to make it as safe as jet fuel.
Megawatt-hours (MWh) are one billion times larger than milliwatt-hours (mWh).
Thank you for the correction.
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