> They’d likely need at least double, probably triple battery capacity to fly useful routes all-electric with enough reserve stored in batteries. Yup. And to b

> They’d likely need at least double, probably triple battery capacity to fly useful routes all-electric with enough reserve stored in batteries. Yup. And to bring this point home: "Only" doubling the battery capacity likely eats well over half of the payload capacity, in terms of mass. So your 38 seat plane is now a 19 seat (or fewer) plane.