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> There ARE PROBLEMS with the batteries FULL STOP Because Elon Musk says so? Do you base your trust in him on his degrees?
by monochromatic 14y ago
> There ARE PROBLEMS with the batteries FULL STOP
Because Elon Musk says so? Do you base your trust in him on his degrees?
- georgemcbay 14y ago> Because Elon Musk says so? I'm not the guy you're responding to but I think it is safe to say there are problems with the batteries. Because, you see, they are catching fire, which is why all of this became an issue to begin with. The problem may or may not be what Elon Musk thinks it is, but if an airplane's batteries are catching fire mid-flight, those batteries certainly have problems, unless catching fire was one of the design goals of those batteries, but I'm going to have to guess it wasn't.
- monochromatic 14y agoYeeeah, I apparently live under a rock. Hadn't heard about the fires, only skimmed the Elon Musk article. Disregard, carry on.
- wiredfool 14y agoWell, there have been at least 100 of them replaced so far, for either being discharged too far, expired, or had charging problems. Apparently, it's pretty easy for ground crews to leave something going that drains the battery to the point where it needs to be sent back to the manufacturer. That's on 50 planes that have been flying in commercial service for less than a year. Oh yeah, and that fire thing too.
- fnordfnordfnord 14y agoThermal runaway in high performance batteries? Musk is not exactly the first to notice this phenomena. His hypothesis is fairly straightforward.
- gnaffle 14y agoNo, the FAA says so, leading to a grounding of all the planes.