‘We’re all having to catch up’: NATO scrambles for drones that can survive the Arctic
COPENHAGEN, Jan 30 (Reuters) - In 2023, Mads Petersen, owner of Greenland-based startup Arctic Unmanned, sat in a car to keep warm while he tested a small drone at minus 43 degrees Celsius (minus 45 degrees Fahrenheit).…Or warm drones at least. Warmish.
"The battery only lasted for three minutes," he said.
This, of course, is a somewhat exaggerated case of a phenomenon which also affects electric automobiles and trucks. Or any other thing that operates on a battery, in fact. Battery is do not work as well in cold temperatures as in warm. At least, the batteries we know how to make don't.
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