schizoidman@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoCATL battery successfully powers electric plane with 1,800-mile civil aircraft expectedelectrek.coexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10 cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ml
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minus-squareTimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoAnd, no more tedious fuel calculations, just charge it all the way up, it doesn’t add any extra weight to do so.
minus-squarejacksilver@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoOddly enough I do actually think a charged battery is heavier, just as a full hard drive is heavier. But not to a degree that would matter. https://toolsweek.com/do-batteries-weigh-more-when-charged/
minus-squareColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoThat article you linked is utter trash, but it is correct about battery weight of a charged battery…technically…very technically…barely. Like, a 4,000 mah lithium battery fully charged should weigh about 30 picograms more than when dead. To put 30 picograms into perspective; a single 5 inch long human hair weighs around 0.04 grams. Well that’s 40,000,000,000 picograms.
And, no more tedious fuel calculations, just charge it all the way up, it doesn’t add any extra weight to do so.
Oddly enough I do actually think a charged battery is heavier, just as a full hard drive is heavier. But not to a degree that would matter.
https://toolsweek.com/do-batteries-weigh-more-when-charged/
That article you linked is utter trash, but it is correct about battery weight of a charged battery…technically…very technically…barely.
Like, a 4,000 mah lithium battery fully charged should weigh about 30 picograms more than when dead.
To put 30 picograms into perspective; a single 5 inch long human hair weighs around 0.04 grams. Well that’s 40,000,000,000 picograms.