Bevirt: eVTOL battery specific energy almost doubled in 15 years
JoeBen Bevirt · Flying Cars Have Arrived! eVTOL Panel: Archer, Joby, Wisk | All-In Summit 2024 · Oct 9, 2024 · at 31:20
JoeBen Bevirt, founder and CEO of Joby Aviation, contrasts 2009 battery technology capabilities with current state-of-the-art cells.
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“When I started the company in, in 2009, we had cells that had sufficient specific power to do a vertical takeoff, but also we're at about a 170 watt hours a kilogram. So we've almost doubled the specific energy in the cells over the last 15 years.”
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