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Pioneering electric plane shelved as batteries only last a few hundred flights
« on: June 17, 2023, 07:07:10 am »
Pioneering electric plane shelved as batteries only last a few hundred flights
Story by Howard Mustoe • Thursday

 
Apioneering electric plane developer has shelved development of its new craft after discovering that its batteries will only last a few hundred flights before they need to be replaced.

Italy’s Tecnam said it will stop making the P-volt aircraft since it cannot now hit a target of delivering the plane by 2026.

The speed at which the batteries would lose charge would erode the nine-passenger craft’s value, ruining its commercial prospects, it added.

The company will now wait for battery capacity and weight improvements which will allow the propeller-driven plane to be developed successfully at a later date.

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