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Your statement sounds like a contradiction. If the development of batteries is so rapid, Rolls Royce not investing in electric engines and doubling down on fue
by samuelstros 3y ago
Your statement sounds like a contradiction.
If the development of batteries is so rapid, Rolls Royce not investing in electric engines and doubling down on fuel-burning engines instead could open them up for a book story worthy "disruption".
By the time batteries/electric plane engines suddenly become good enough, Rolls Royce might face themselves in a "why does nobody want our fuel-burning engines anymore" situation that will require multiple years to catch up to electric engine manufacturers. Multiple years of catching up that Rolls Royce might not have at the time they find themselves in the "nobody wants our engines anymore" situation.
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- nabla9 3y agoRolls Royce is owned by BMW. BMW does strategic investments and R&D for them. They just look what they need for next few models.
- hgomersall 3y agoDifferent Rolls Royce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Holdings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Holdings
- samuelstros 3y agoThe Rolls Royce company of discussion is not owned by BMW. The car brand Rolls Royce is owned by BMW.
- bluGill 3y agoWe know the laws of physics behind batteries. The theoretical best possible battery (which assumes things like spherical cows) is still very heavy compared to burning liquid fuels. Yes battery advancement is happening rapidly, but it can only asymptotically approach the limits which are not very good for the purposes of flight. I believe there as chemists and physicist better qualified than me to tell you what the limits are.