Performance Requirements of Next-Generation Batteries for Electrification of Aviation

Kurzfassung

An overview of the challenges that battery-driven aircraft concepts face due to the low power density of batteries. An introduction of a plug-in-hybrid-electric powertrain as a solution to some of these challenges. A summary of the performance parameters the battery technology needs to achieve to be considered useful for aviation applications, based on experience from DLR projects on aircraft concepts with battery-centric hybrid-electric powertrains.