I believe that electric flight could be privately explored for research purposes. And probably we need test pilots, and we need to train them and this may be a good plane to do it. So far so good, as long as I don't pay.
But I don't swallow the "almost there" mantra, nor that this aircraft is the TESLA of general aviation. I don't agree if you say training for gas flight is better done in an electric trainer (I'm not sure you said that, I'm sorry if you didn't).
And specially not that electric flight offers "superior speed and altitude performance". It makes me sad to see that people manipulates the truth with such impunity. If cessnas necessitated superior speed and altitude performance, regardless of the rest of factors such as price or measuring endurance in hours or minutes, they would simply use a couple cylinders more and 10 times less fuel.