I’m not convinced that turnaround time is as big of an issue as it’s made out to be. The point of low turnaround time is to lower cost. But EV airplanes are li

I’m not convinced that turnaround time is as big of an issue as it’s made out to be. The point of low turnaround time is to lower cost. But EV airplanes are likely to be much cheaper to operate, so they don’t need low turnaround time to be economically competitive. If they take an hour to charge they could be moved to a separate area where they don’t incur high fees from the airport for taking up valuable space at the gate. And the primary market for these planes is going to be small local airports, that don’t have gate fees as a factor at all. The main problem for those airports is they don’t get utilised enough because planes are too expensive to operate and too loud to have frequent take-offs/landing close to town anyway. I’m also guessing that these planes will be able to charge fast enough to get to 20min turnaround time for many routes. They won’t be discharged to less than 20% when landing, and many routes can probably be handled with 80% charge. 20-80% charge in 20min is absolutely feasible.