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Turns out, Boeing’s latest lithium troubles are shaking down to the rest of the airline industry. Airbus just announced that it is scrapping plans to outfit its A350 jets with the same secondary batteries that have caused its rival so much trouble.
According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Airbus has already dropped the Lithium-ion cells from its upcoming A350 in favor of less reactive, but lower capacity, nickel-based batteries. The move comes in response to a spate of recent Boeing trouble including exploding batteries and thermally unstable power cells. [WSJ]
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I still have my doubts over what kind of fire these batteries could cause in an airplane. They should do a test to see, a few have obviously melted but they’ve not caused any damage to the aircraft, all landed perfectly safe.
Yeah you don’t want them melting but why hasn’t Boeing just switched the battery type instead of the whole plane being grounded and everyone over reacting? I bet this has cost Boeing hundreds of millions, especially with cancelled sales.
The times they did catch fire the planes where near a landing strip, if they where over a sea then it could haves destroyed the plane.
Also redesigning a new battery would take longer then modifying the design of the old, they were grounded anyways so a redesign would probably be faster.
Batteries are nothing new, especially Lithium Ion, loads of planes must use them and they all probably use some generic one right?
The Dreamliner is the first plane to use Li-ion, and they are using custom batteries.
They take there time moving onto new tech, its taken them this long to move to Li-ion and Li-ion is already out-dated and old, I don’t see why they would even use Li-ion, Li-po is newer and better in nearly every way (only down side is that it is fussy if you put the wrong voltage in)
*Li-Pol
my guess is that it has certain design characteristics based on power/usage/measurements(3D+weight)/life cycle/etc for them to be specific which may be required careful testing and planing?
dont get me wrong but these are special planes, not everyday car/truck.
in a way…
in a dumb example, you dont take subaru’s turbo charger and fit it in a ferrari