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Embraer’s Eve rolls out flying taxi prototype, cash needs covered until 2027 – ET Auto

Baua Electric

The company is one of a bevy of startups worldwide developing battery-powered aircraft that can take off and land vertically to ferry travelers on short city trips, allowing them to beat traffic. “This is a foundation stone so we can learn and keep going,” he added. “Challenges exist. It’s not something trivial.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Batteries powerful enough to achieve that would fill up the trunk of a car, he said. When asked, are batteries ready yet, he said flat-out "no."

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The world needs more batteries — but not this many – ET Auto

Baua Electric

The wave of battery factories under construction around the world will be able to produce far more cells than the global economy needs, BloombergNEF warns in a new report. Demand for lithium-ion cells is growing fast, as automakers electrify their fleets and utilities install big batteries to stabilize the power grid.

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