[LinuxBender]

For what it's worth, there are several EV aircraft companies going through the approval process as we speak to get their aircraft certified for human transport. These are not cross country flights. Most of them are trying to pick up the short distance "taxi" markets. i.e. office to airport, home to near-by ski resort, hotel to ski resort, home to office, etc... sub-60 minute flights. The approval process is long and most of these companies won't see human passengers until 2024 or later even if they get approved. Maker eVTOL is one such example. [1] United Airlines is also getting into this business. [2] Here [3] are 5 more air taxi's. Virgin and American have also been working on this effort for a few years. [4] I would expect the range to get a little bit longer with time, but by no means cross-country any time soon. Here [5] is a certified non-vtol EV LSA. Tesla will have one out soon and I expect it to have a longer flight time.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rtoqs6BbCo [video]

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J797IZyAeRU [video]

[3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXA6gQ2tchU [video]

[4] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paC_eHwhmYY [video]

[5] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMrLHeKJA80 [video]

[plantain]

These are all carefully engineered marketing exercises built to extract investor/SPAC money, with little to no chance of ever reaching the market.