[notahacker]

It's good to see YCombinator funding some ambitious and really hard projects, but I'll believe the "in a decade" when I see it. Even if a decade's worth of battery technology improvements allows it to get off the ground, there's still a lot of painful certification processes to work through (and certification authorities likely to be less-receptive than average due to it being a new entity and having less commonality with previous generation aircraft)

A little surprised they seem to be going after the ultracompetitive A320/737 market rather than the shorter-haul, lower-speed, turboprop market as well (closer to their starting point, less competition, even more fuel price-sensitive, airline customers less conservative etc.)