China's CATL said Wednesday it was working with partners to develop electric passenger planes as they unveiled a condensed matter battery it said was strong enough to power such an aircraft. The world's biggest maker of batteries for electrical vehicles made the announcement at the Shanghai Auto Show and said it would also launch a version for cars that would go into mass production this year. "The launch of this cutting-edge technology breaks the limits that have long restricted the development of the battery sector and will open up a new scenario of electrification centring on a high level of safety and lightweight," the company said in a news release. CATL did not specify who its airline partners were but said it was practising aviation-level standards and testing in accordance with industry requirements. "We believe that condensed batteries will have a positive and far-reaching impact on achieving carbon neutrality," CATL's chief scientist Wu Kai told a media conference. The company announced on Tuesday that its core operations would be carbon neutral by 2025, with the rest following in 2035. Its Yibin factory in the southwestern province of Sichuan was certified as the...
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