{"id":111889,"date":"2020-08-25T04:24:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T11:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/a-tesla-electric-jet-elon-musk-says-400wh-kg-battery-volume-production-possible-in-3-4-years"},"modified":"2020-08-25T04:24:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T11:24:35","slug":"a-tesla-electric-jet-elon-musk-says-400wh-kg-battery-volume-production-possible-in-3-4-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/a-tesla-electric-jet-elon-musk-says-400wh-kg-battery-volume-production-possible-in-3-4-years","title":{"rendered":"A Tesla Electric Jet? Elon Musk Says 400Wh\/kg Battery Volume Production Possible in 3\u20134 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-tesla-electric-jet-elon-musk-says-400wh-kg-battery-volume-production-possible-in-3-4-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk has updated the timeline on which he sees batteries enabling electric aircraft coming to maket. He now sees it happening in \u201c3 to 4 years.\u201d Several years ago, Musk, the CEO of both Tesla and SpaceX, said that he had a design for electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) a\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em>Featured image: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomAbbotDavies1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TomAbbotDavies1<\/a>\/Twitter<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been talking about the electric plane for a long time. He even said he has an electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft project, though he never went into details about plans to launch it into production.<\/p>\n<p>Musk said that in order for his design to work, it is necessary to increase the specific energy of the batteries. He calculated that lithium-ion batteries would need to reach an energy density of 400 Wh \/ kg for the batteries to outperform kerosene (Jet A) and for his electric plane to be viable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk has updated the timeline on which he sees batteries enabling electric aircraft coming to maket. He now sees it happening in \u201c3 to 4 years.\u201d Several years ago, Musk, the CEO of both Tesla and SpaceX, said that he had a design for electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) a\u2026 Featured [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}