FAA approves lithium-ion batteries for A350 Airbus aircraft

Excellent news from Airbus  - they have approval from the FAA to use Lithium Ion batteries on their A350 aircraft. There was concern that the incidents experienced by Boeing would forever prevent Airbus from moving forward with the modernisation of their aircraft battery platforms.

 

The weight and power advantages of Lithium ion batteries in aircraft are so huge compared with traditional Nickel based technologies that this is the only sensible way forward. It looks like Airbus have learnt the lessons from Boeing and can always revert back to Nickel Cadmium if they really have to - but I don't see that being a problem if they have they have done their homework...

Read the article in ESP here...

Neil Oliver