A historic electric airplane flight landed at JFK with passengers, marking a milestone as Beta Technologies demonstrates the practicality and efficiency of electric air travel.
It’s a problem of range. Jet planes have the advantage that they get lighter as the flight goes on, so for shorter flights, the battery issue is not as big of a problem. It’s not a physical impossibility to achieve flight with lithium ion, it’s a question of how far.
It’s a problem of range. Jet planes have the advantage that they get lighter as the flight goes on, so for shorter flights, the battery issue is not as big of a problem. It’s not a physical impossibility to achieve flight with lithium ion, it’s a question of how far.