Originally Posted by
ExSimGuy
Thanks for the amendments -- Seems there's been a bit of twisting with the electric aircraft stories. There have been a lot of improvements in batteries for electric cars, and a lot more just in "lab final analysts". Obviously this is largely driven by the car market, but oneoff those lab experiments could, maybe, emerge with a bayyery that could be used in bugger passenger loads of longer tange . . .
However, if I was a gamblng man, I'd still place my bet on a hydrogen system for bigger aircraft and significantly longer range.
I'd say you bet is correct, but with a LOOONNNGGG wait time. Battery development is concentrating on cost and charge time, as they are important in land vehicles, while energy density, which is what would be needed to make transport aircraft practical, has largely plateaued.