Electrifying aviation with Kyle Clark of BETA Technologies

Hello and welcome to How I Built This Lab. I'm Guy Raz. So it seems pretty clear that within, say, fifty years, most cars will likely be electric. The internal combustion engine is on its way out, but That's not necessarily the case for air travel. So far, it's been difficult to figure out how to create a long range commercial electric airplane.

But when it comes to shorter distances Electric plants will start to play a much bigger role, especially in transporting goods like medicine and packages. One of the leading companies in the space is beta technologies. The company's founder, Ky Clark, is a bit of a jack of all trades. He's a serial entrepreneur who started three other companies, and he's also a former NHL hockey player.

But he's always been mainly interested in building planes. In fact, the name of his company could be traced back to his early reputation as a tinkerer. My passion was designing things, building things, and you know, even the name of our company, beta. Um, which which is named because of my nickname in hockey because beta was the nerd in the in the Matrix movie in the back, always hammering away on his computer and uh and on the hockey team everyone had a a nickname and my nickname was Beta. 'Cause I was a nerd and I was always studying and just doing applied math and engineering. Um

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