He thinks he's overcome the battery problem with one developed by Reno's Altair Nano-technologies.
On Jan. 16, another 787 made an emergency landing in Japan after another battery problem.
Despite Saadi's gloomy outlook, potential answers to the battery problem are beginning to take shape in laboratories.
We still don't know what caused the battery problem, and so we are looking into all possibilities.
Musk went through a detailed description of the battery problem on the plane.
Fixing the battery problem quickly and definitively is paramount for the company, considering the sizable investment of the industry following the model's problem-plagued development.
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Meanwhile, the time it is likely to take to thoroughly investigate and fix the battery problem alone ought to ground the 787 for months.
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Musk also recently gave help to Boeing on its battery problem for its new 787 plane, after getting a call for help from Richard Branson.
The board has not so far said the battery problem would endanger the safety of the plane in flight nor recommended that the planes be grounded.
The continued lack of a solution for the battery problem is causing a headache for Boeing and the airlines who have had to cancel their 787 flights.
Since July, the growing list of reported troubles aboard the planes include a fuel leak, an oil leak, two cracked engines, a damaged cockpit window and a battery problem.
The January 16th malfunction that finally triggered the grounding order involved an ANL flight that was diverted to the Takamatsu airport in western Japan when pilots detected a burning smell and a cockpit message indicated a battery problem.
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Japanese battery maker GS Yuasa has seen its shares fall 11% since 7 January when an electrical fire broke out on a JAL 787 at Logan International Airport in Boston, although they rebounded 1% on Monday as it became apparent the fault may not have been a pure battery problem.
Sometimes, these rotations bring big payoffs, such as when 3M realized that the problem of laptop battery life was really a problem of energy used up too quickly for illuminating the screen. 3M researchers applied their knowledge of see-through adhesives to create an optical film that focuses light outward, producing a screen that was 40% more efficient.
That final possibility -- battery charging -- leaves open the possibility that the problem could reside outside the battery itself.
The problem was a battery cable cover that was incorrectly mounted in the trunk.
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The panel thinks the iWatch represents a massive opportunity for Apple and possibly a longer term replacement for the iPhone but battery life will be a problem to overcome.
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Getting the energy into the FreeCharge's battery is only half of the problem, however.
While Apple claims the device gets up to five hours of battery life--just about enough for a cross-country flight, provided you're not delayed--the inability to replace the battery on the go could be a problem for hard-core road warriors, who pop batteries into their machines the way a long-distance trucker gobbles amphetamines.
The problem has been with maintaining the battery.
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The problem with these vehicles is that a battery cable connector can fail and cause the engines to stall.
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To solve the problem, Boeing has decided to revamp the battery system.
There's also the problem of the iPhone's built-in battery, which can't be swapped without a trip to the factory.
The company says it has licked the overheating problem (recall exploding laptops), and its first lithium battery will hit the market in late 2008.
The lithium-ion battery in a cell phone, for example, is safer because the battery is so close to the outside of the phone that heat does not build up and cause a problem.
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Battery troubles pose the single biggest reason for AAA response calls during the summer, according to AAA. Another common problem is overheated vehicles--especially big rigs towing boats, say, or ATVs.
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