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A Tesla Electric Plane? Elon Musk Hints It\u2019s Not Far Away<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Sissi Cao<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elon Musk first floated the idea of an electric jet two years ago.\u00a0Saul Martinez\/Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk once said<\/a> that one day, \u201call transportation will be electric, except for rockets.\u201d Yes, that even includes airplanes, which have long been on his list of things to electrify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Tesla CEO first floated the idea<\/a> in an interview in September 2018. The plane he envisioned was a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL)<\/a> vehicle capable of flying at supersonic speeds at high altitudes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea has largely remained a far-fetched dream because in order for Musk\u2019s design to work, the plane would require a battery with an energy density higher than 400 Wh\/kg. Tesla\u2019s newest batteries, Panasonic\u2019s \u201c2170\u201d batteries used in Model 3 cars, can only achieve an energy density of around 260Wh\/kg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Tesla is working to\u00a0increase that capacity at unprecedented speed<\/a>\u00a0right now. In a new exchange with ARK Investment analyst Sam Korus on Twitter, Musk said Tesla may be able to achieve volume production of 400wh\/kg batteries in just three to four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from OBSERVER A Tesla Electric Plane? Elon Musk Hints It\u2019s Not Far Away By\u00a0Sissi Cao Elon Musk once said that one day, \u201call transportation will be electric, except for rockets.\u201d Yes, that even includes airplanes, which have long been on his list of things to electrify. The Tesla CEO first floated the idea in an interview in September 2018. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}