Battery powered flights from Washington DC to LA. No longer a pipe dream?

In Europe about 17% of flights are internal and 36% intra EU. So if that new CATL battery could even do 2000km, about 50% of EU flights could be replaced. That is huge!

Refreshing to not have to hear an a.i voice … thank you for quality

China cut down on domestic flight with far more efficient high speed rail. That seems like the sensible solution to me.

Just look at the busiest passenger routes in the world Jeju-Seoul (Korea) 449 km 13 mill passengers Sapporo-Tokyo (Japan) 835 km - 11 million passengers Hanoi-Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) - 11 million passengers Sydney-Melbourne (Australia) 705 km - 9 million passengers. If you look at Europe domestically, little Norway has 3 of the top 10 routes in Europe (since it is really hard to make high-speed trains for the same reason that makes Norway pretty to look at - it is a topographical challenge). 300 km in a straight line can easily take over 7 hours to traverse "overland" due to mountains and fiords. These domestic routes make "Amsterdam-Madrid" or "Paris-Rome" look like struggling routes by comparison. Get aircraft to charge fast enough with a "city-hopper" range of 1000 km and suddenly we are looking at tens of millions of flight hours turned into low emission. I also like what Airbus Helicopters is looking into. Because of what helicopters do (hovering above our heads) we require them to run two turbines over populated areas (like SAR/Ambulance services), both engines needing to be powerful enough to fly away on their own. Airbus is testing out a single jet engine with "5 minutes of battery reserves" in case a second engine is needed for an emergency landing. Hybrid solutions deserve our attention even though Japanese car makers have done their best to soil the concept for a decade.

The rate of progress in the battery industry is quite frankly incredible. Meanwhile some people think nothing has changed in the last 20 years. Misinformed or uneducated?

As a retired Airline Pilot (Airbus 340) I consider this to be excellent news. Unfortunately by the time this technology becomes commercially available, I shall be 6 feet under. Thank you for this video!

This is highly underrated you tube channel. God bless you.

The price of jet fuel often determines whether an airliner is profitable or not in a given year, therefore the first airliner to adopt electric planes will have a huge cost advantage over its competitors, forcing them to also go electric!

Harbour Air here in British Columbia has been messing around with Electric Aircraft. It looks like they are still at it. The distances they are covering isn't that large as Atlanta to Los Angeles but with better battery tech should make there conversions easier. I really love your YouTube content and how you present it.

I have been looking for this video all morning and figured I missed it. Thankfully, now I can begin my day with my coffee and some education.

The ability to have regulations that require all flights under 3000 km to be electric would be huge! I don't know the statistics off hand, but I do know that most flights here in the US are shorter than that.

This, and many of your other videos, reminds me of the adage: "Those who declare that something cannot be done should get out of the way of people already doing it." Remember that heavier than air machines cannot fly anyway ;)

In the early days of transatlantic aviation the planes used to stop for fuel at Shannon, Ireland and Gander, Newfoundland. The distance between those is 1981 miles. Hmmm.

Thanks for the great work on informing us all.

Awesome. The density of your energy density reports is increasing as fast as the battery technology! 😂

The idea of Electric aircraft is so exciting. Air travel is my personal dilema. I tried driving from home in Vancouver Canada to winter home in Merida Mexico and while it was a wonderful experience I would not do it again, let alone every year! So very good news!

In my little city which has a rubbish tip named after John Cleese, I see BYD's, Polstars, Tesla's, Leafs, Mach-e's, GWM's, Hyunda and Kia's. At intersections there is often at least a couple more EV's other than mine. Never have I ever seen a EV Toyota, GM or VW.

Not a comment about the technical, rather a thank you for keeping the hope alive.

Joby Aviation is progressing rapidly toward FAA Certification of its short haul commuter eVTOL.

You had me at 600 miles/charge!