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Wright Selected for $3.34M Award From FAA FAST for Ultra-Lightweight Batteries

MALTA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wright Electric and its partners have been selected to receive a $3.34M award from the FAA FAST program to develop a new class of batteries that will enable zero emission aircraft flights on large 100+ passenger aircraft. It is widely agreed that lightweighting batteries is the most difficult technical challenge preventing the adoption of electric aircraft. The objective of the R&D program is to construct highly energy dense batteries which hold roughly three t...

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