[NotSammyHagar]

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.

[pramsey]

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/

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!

[KolmogorovComp]

Hello, do you have a link or name?

[schiffern]

Here's the link, but the range isn't as bad as they said.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/eviation-announces-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eviation_Alice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Air

[kccqzy]

There's also an electric "flying water taxi" https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/18/san-francisco-navier-elect...