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3. Current and future technological issues and challenges
3.1 The challenges
In practice, all-electric aircraft are limited to a light category with limited range. Apart from economic considerations, current technologies can meet the needs of very light aircraft, but their performance is still too low to allow commercialization (except for APUs, which are a notable special case).
To power larger aircraft, a significant improvement in energy storage technologies is expected. Compared with current performance levels, these should be able to develop at least 5 times more specific energy. More realistically, a factor of 10 would become commercially attractive for regional aircraft
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Bibliography
Websites
Air transport and the CO2 issue: the challenges of ETS mechanisms and biojets, Panorama, 2013, http://www.ifp.fr
Global CO 2 emissions and reduction targets, ...
Events
More Electric Aircraft – Bordeaux Convention Center https://www.see.asso.fr/manifestation/16234_mea2017
More Electric Aircraft Europe 2017, Germany October 17-19 https://more-electric-aircraft.iqpc.de/
...Standards and norms
IATA http://www.iata.org/whatwedo/cargo/dgr/Pages/lithium-batteries.aspx
Guidance on Testing and Installation of Date : 10/15/15 AC No : 20-184 ; Rechargeable Lithium Battery and Battery Initiated By : AIR-133 ; Systems on Aircraft,
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