It was all a dream: A flying vehicle capable of moving passengers from point A to B. Now, we’ve made those futurist visions a reality with #BlackFly. #eVTOL

Thanks to Shashank Sripad Venkat Viswanathan & Lilium for walking me through their collaboration to define battery requirements for the eVTOL Lilium Jet. Lilium will need next-gen cells & super efficient packaging but their strategy is technically possible. theaircurrent.com/technology/lil…

Congratulations Shashank Sripad for Forbes 30 under 30 in 2023! Well-deserved 🔋✈️🔥 Venkat Viswanathan forbes.com/profile/shasha…

"Vertiports" are part of The Economist's list of 23 items of vital vocabulary in 2023! (So is the Battery Belt!) economist.com/the-world-ahea…

To realize an electric future of aviation, I am moving to University of Michigan this fall to be a part of Michigan Aerospace oldest aerospace department in the world. Four transformative events led to this move: 🧵 and Bloomberg Zero podcast with Akshat Rathi bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

What do we know about CATL's "Condensed Matter" battery? Not a lot! But we can speculate a 🧵 1/8 #battchat bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Largest eVTOL battery dataset, led by しおね Shashank Sripad. 22 cells with a total of 21,392 charge & discharge cycles with full voltage and temperature data. Temperature rise and power fade during landing over cycles needs to be accurately captured. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Excited to be working on enabling a new era of aviation. I have the privilege to work with Shashank Sripad and Venkat Viswanathan to build And Battery Aero (ABA) - decarbonizing and propelling the future of aviation (1/4)

Thanks to Paul Brinkmann for featuring And Battery Aero (ABA) and my move to Michigan Aerospace in Aerospace America! In ARPA-E SCALEUP program, with 24M Technologies, we are aiming to bring lithium metal batteries for the electric aviation market. (1/3) aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/startup-sees-n…

The results of BloombergNEF's 2023 Battery Price Survey are in! 🔋💲🔻 Average prices have fallen by 14% to $139/kWh This is great news for an industry that was hit hard by raw material prices rises in 2022 #battchat bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

On Dec 3, 1889, Nikola Tesla patented Electric Motor.

"There are too many expensive, heavyweight electric models being pushed at American drivers and not enough compelling vehicles at lower price points." Hear hear Liam Denning bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

The claim: We'll never be able to run the grid without fossil fuels because <technical grid service needs> The reality: World's 6th-largest economy nears fossil-free grid operation, hitting record-low 2.4% this month carbonbrief.org/analysis-fossi…

Battery recycling shatters the myth of electric-vehicle waste. The upfront emissions from making a battery are paid back after driving just 15,000 miles.

Excited to attend ARPA-E Summit: Booth 919 : SCALEUP 24M Technologies (Shashank Sripad) on Li metal batteries for aviation; Booth 1325: EVs4ALL on sodium batteries for EVs; Booth 900: Chement presenting on echem cement; Booth 342: Aionics, Inc. on using ML for electrolyte optimization.

The story behind our Omics approach to designing better batteries for emerging markets, such as aviation. newscenter.lbl.gov/2024/07/11/bio…

Did you know #offroad vehicles (e.g., excavators, dump trucks, farm equipment, etc.) are as polluting as #aviation? In the latest ACSEnergyLett viewpoint, we identify the #Battery performance metrics to #decarbonize this sector: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…. Colorado School of Mines 🔋

This is nonintuitive but flying can (is frequently) more efficient than driving. Venkat Viswanathan and I analyzed this for urban aircraft in our PNASNews report on #evtols pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

super proud of our team proving cleaner, quieter, more efficient air movement is possible

Why do we think supersonic flight will work at scale on Boom Supersonic Overture when it didn't on Concorde? Here's the business case for supersonic—and a never-before-seen piece of Overture's design. 🧵👇 Only 14 Concordes >1,000 Overtures planned