Anant Geete, Venkat Viswanathan.

“This is a matter of happiness for them. However, their happiness will be short-lived.”

China’s dominance in Li-ion production may make it happy but for India’s Union Heavy Industry Minister Anant Geete it is a matter of competition – and time. He says the country is working with manufacturers to set up battery facilities asap.
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“Electric propulsion permits new design architectures […] We’ll redesign aircraft around electric motors.”

Venkat Viswanathan, a battery scientist at Carnegie Mellon University dreams of electric flying and believes the airplanes of tomorrow will look nothing like those today.
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