Developers and prospective operators of eVTOL aircraft remain hostage to multiple complex challenges as they seek to launch commercial services. Battery performance is high on that list, according to power technology specialist About:Energy, which is seeking to guide the ambitious advanced air mobility sector through a complex path to making the best of what is available and what yet might become available.
In the early years of eVTOL development, the most audible concern around batteries related to their safety. “The bigger challenge now is their commercial viability,” Yashraj Tripathy, About:Energy’s head of product, told AIN. “At one point there was the idea that ‘one battery accident could take down the whole industry,’ but there is now clearer understanding with the regulators on harmonizing standards, albeit there will also be a further push for safer batteries.”
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