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EVTOL battery sizing and energy consumption estimation model

This repo accompanies the paper "The promise of energy-efficient battery-powered urban aircraft" by Shashank Sripad and Venkat Viswanathan. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 9, 2021 118 (45) e2111164118

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Aug 25, 2022

The specific energy estimates were presented in a follow-up article in The Wall Street Journal by Jon Sindreu.

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Aug 11, 2022

Insights from the paper were featured in The Fast Company.

Fast Company Sripad

Jul 6, 2022

The Ragone plot from the work was featured in The Wall Street Journal by Jon Sindreu. A new EVTOL VX4 from Vertical Aerospace was also shown in the list.

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Dec 16, 2021

Figure 2 from the paper which shows the battery requirements for various EVTOL aircraft was featured in a Forbes story by Jeremy Bogaisky about Beta Technologies

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Dec 14, 2021

The paper was mentioned in a story by Elan Head on eVTOL.com

Nov 29, 2021

We spoke to the Beta Technologies team who provided additional inputs. See the LinkedIn update post. Beta Alia

Nov 20, 2021

Mark Moore, pioneer of Distributed Electric Propulsion and revered aerospace engineer posted about the paper.

Daniel Raymer commented about it!

Mark Moore EVTOL

Nov 5, 2021

The paper was covered in Big Think by Ross Pomeroy

Nov 1, 2021

The paper was accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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