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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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What's the latest news about electric planes? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 months ago by hono4kami@slrpnk.net to c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net

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Will we even see commercial electric planes in our lifetime?

From what I know, what's stopping it from becoming commercialized(?) is limitation of current generation battery. TBH I'm not an expert on this subject.

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[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

The density requirement for batteries for a commercialy viable airliner I believe is ~400wh/kg. There's several technologies being commercialized now that meet that goal: Dense Lithium cells, Lithium Sulphur Iodide and BYD's solid state battery to name a few.