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Old February 23rd 17, 03:40 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Steve Leonard[_2_]
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Default FES&electric system batteries

On Thursday, February 23, 2017 at 5:27:10 AM UTC-6, krasw wrote:
Interesting that while current Kokam batteries for FES cost 8000 euros (2000eur/kWh), at the same time Tesla is building batteries costing under 200 eur/kWh. Assembling FES battery with new Tesla cells would cost one tenth, even doubling or tripling that would still keep it quite affordable. Why use so expensive battery?


I think this is where Bob K or Darryl R inserts pictures of Flaming Tesslas....