It is located in the Baltic Sea between two expansive economic regions, the south of Finland and the Stockholm region on Sweden’s east coast. Åland is an autonomous part of Finland with a Swedish speaking population. Getting fossil-fuel cars off the road makes sense as Tesla's current focus – but with Musk displaying a slide at Tesla's recent Battery Day encompassing all forms of global energy use, the firm seems to have much grander goals in mind.Swedish electric airplane maker Heart Aerospace and the Government of Åland today announced a collaboration to explore the use of Heart’s electric regional airplane, the ES-30, in developing sustainable air services for the Baltic Sea group of islands. But the World Resources Institute found that transport accounted for around 24 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in 2016, and around 72 percent of transport emissions come from roads. Aviation only accounted for around 2.4 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions in 2018, according to the Environmental and Energy Study Institute. Musk noted in 2018 that cars and clean energy were both bigger priorities than aviation, and it's easy to see why. In reality, it's probably not going to arrive for a very long time – and it's unclear whether the electric car company Tesla would go as far as to enter the aviation business itself. The Inverse analysis – Musk's latest comments suggest he's still interested in an electric jet. Musk also responded to concept art in June 2020 of a possible Tesla electric plane, which looked something like a manta ray, writing that it ' looks pretty cool.' In 2018 he said: 'the exciting thing to do would be a vertical takeoff and landing supersonic jet of some kind,' suggesting he's focused on a high-speed design that wouldn't need the long runways of current jets.

Musk said as far back as 2015 that he ' a design in mind,' but it's unclear what the Tesla plane could look like.

And I think our batteries will, over time, start to approach the 400 watt-hours per kilogram range as well.'Ī month prior, Musk had posted that such a battery could enter volume production in 'probably three to four years.' Although Musk didn't explicitly outline density in the main talk, he later suggested that Tesla could reach that figure at a later date: 'There are batteries in limited production right now that do exceed 400-watt hours per kilogram, which I think is about the number you need for decent range, medium-range aircraft. Tesla plans to produce its own batteries, which could deliver a 54 percent jump in battery range for electric cars and a 56 percent drop in price per kilowatt-hour. The biggest signal that an electric jet is on Musk's mind came during the question-and-answer session at the event. The ideal figure would be somewhere around 500 watt-hours per kilogram. While the Tesla Model 3 has a battery somewhere around 250 watt-hours per kilogram, Musk suggested an electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle would require around 400 watt-hours per kilogram. One of the biggest hurdles, outlined by Musk in September 2018, is creating a battery with enough energy density to enable a plane to take off. Tesla's Battery Day event last month gave some clarity on a way forward for the project.

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