Originally Posted by
Less Hair
There are totally new aspects to think about, battery health one of the most prominent. Like charging software, charging power used and peak power use, battery temperature, environmental temperatures in cruise flight, battery aging. It will take a while until this is good enough for Joe public.
Precisely. On the long term, fossil fuels are dead, and batteries are today the only realistic alternative. Still, they are far from being "market-ripe".
So perhaps we won't be waiting as long some doubters believe
To me it seems rather that we will wait longer than some hopers believe. Especially in the very conservative environment of aviation in general, and private aviation in particular.