Originally Posted by
Sailvi767
You omit the fact that with a fuel verses electric aircraft you can adjust the amount of energy you carry onboard to account for the length of flight and other variables. A electric aircraft loses the ability to depart with a 50% fuel load to allow increased payload. In airline operations that occurs on almost every flight.
You omit the fact that electric aircraft is only viable with (and serious electric projects only claim) really short range routes, like inter island below 100 nm. In these conditions, relative to conventional aircraft, you operate well below fuel with maximum payload so you never worry about these trades. You fuel up for short range and you go with max payload all the way, like the ATR's.