A Battery of Tests

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Tesla CEO: Boeing Batteries Needed Better Cooling

Questions about the cooling of the Boeing 787's batteries came up again this week, as Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk publicly stated that the plane's large pack design is a risky one.

"Unfortunately, the pack architecture supplied to Boeing is inherently unsafe," he wrote in an email to Flightglobal.com. "Large cells without enough space between them to isolate against the cell-to-cell thermal domino effect means it is simply a matter of time before there are more incidents of this nature."

Tesla uses lithium-ion battery packs in its Tesla Roadster and Tesla Model S vehicles. Its design involves 6,000-7,000 small lithium-ion cells. Musk told Flightglobal that the cells are separated in a way that makes them less likely than large cells to suffer from thermal runaway events.

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I saw that. It'd be good for them if Boeing will use Tesla's batteries. Though Boeing claimed it was under control

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I saw that. It'd be good for them if Boeing will use Tesla's batteries. Though Boeing claimed it was under control

It's not like Tesla is finding many happy homes for those batteries anyway, right?