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There are some very early stage tests, there is some kind of island hopper electric airplane that flys regular service, and it's only like 5 or 10 miles across

There are some very early stage tests, there is some kind of island hopper electric airplane that flys regular service, and it's only like 5 or 10 miles across water. Batteries will get more energy dense, the range will increase a bit. But yeah, it's hard to see it getting to a few 100 miles.

KolmogorovComp 3y ago
Hello, do you have a link or name?
- schiffern 3y ago
  Here's the link, but the range isn't as bad as they said. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/eviation-announces-first-commercial-customer-cape-air-for-its-all-electric-airplane-alice-300870249.html https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/eviation-announces-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eviation_Alice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eviation_Alice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Air https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Air
- kccqzy 3y ago
  There's also an electric "flying water taxi" https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/18/san-francisco-navier-electric-water-taxi-sfo/ https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/18/san-francisco-navier-elect...
pramsey 3y ago
Testing and development by an actual operational airline, but running into regulation and certification issues. Could be a while even for this relatively narrow use case of seaplane flights of under an hour duration. Interesting update. https://harbourair.com/earth-day-eplane-update/ https://harbourair.com/earth-day-eplane-update/ In terms of battery density, the fact that they have an operational, flyable aircraft, just stuffing batteries and an electric motor into a 60 year old air frame... pretty good and only going to get better!