As electric aircraft become more prevalent, what happens to batteries that can no longer be used for flying, but still have life in them?
A Neenah, Wisconsin-based company, Volatus Infrastructure & Energy Solutions, has partnered with ScoutIt to recycle Electric Vehicle (EV) batteries by installing them in its new “battery wall” product line that will create an off-grid charging solution, according to company officials.
“The proliferation of electric transportation brings many new challenges. Being able to work with a company like ScoutIt to ensure continued life for EV batteries and develop new power storage technology is a blessing,” said Grant Fisk, VI&E Solutions Co-Founder and COO.
Partnering with VI&E Solutions is a “key step” to ensuring there is a clear strategy on what to do with batteries “once they’re exhausted and can’t propel the aircraft,” said Davide Giacobbe, Scoutit Founder and CEO.
Great for flight schools using electric primary trainers for primary training in the pattern and close airport proximity for air work.
As for the rest of aviation—forget it.
If people have range anxiety with electric automobiles, (i.e.-not enough charging stations, charging stations that don’t work, long wait periods to charge away from home base) can we imagine the impact of range anxiety in the air?
Kent Said it all.
“As electric aircraft become more prevalent…” Dream on. Ain’t gonna happen. A fra better investment would be in mogas fuel systems for the 80% of all piston aircraft that can operate just fine on it. Essentially 100% of all new aircraft engines are designed to operate on mogas, eg Rotax, UL Power. And then there are the diesel aircraft engines, the most efficient imaginable. They burn diesel, Jet-A and sometimes also cheap kerosene.