Airbus dumping Lithium batteries on A350
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013...ries.html?_r=0
a clever move by Airbus at just the right time ! This will make it pretty well impossible for Boeing to now claim they can come up with an adequate method to continue with Lithium, where the other mainstream manufacturer also now says they can't be relied on. It will derail the 787 programme for months. Meanwhile the A350 test programme will start with the Lithiums, but without being certified for pax of course.
It is, of course, the right course of action. I wonder if Boeing have even started the drawings for going back to previous battery technology.