The Allplane Podcast #56: latest in battery tech for electric aviation, with Venkat Viswanathan

Things we talk about in this episode:
-Venkat’s academic background and how he got interested in batteries for aviation
-What is the current state of battery science & why this is a hot area of academia right now
-Venkat’s two recent papers on battery technology for aviation
-How battery technology used in electric cars may not be the best choice to electrify aviation
-Different battery technologies: Li-Ion, Li-Metal, fluoride-based and batteries using non-metallic elements
-How each of these battery technologies can fulfill different roles and serve different segments of the aviation industry
-Characterization, robot-driven experimentation and machine learning: three technologies that are accelerating battery research dramatically