That kind of plane could very much fly trans Atlantic with stop overs in Iceland or Greenland or further south from Kap Verde or Guinea to Brazil.
That kind of plane could very much fly trans Atlantic with stop overs in Iceland or Greenland or further south from Kap Verde or Guinea to Brazil.
Well, you can’t take a battery powered flight anywhere, so yes, still a pipedream.
It’s more nuanced than that. Current battery energy density (250-300 Wh/kg) is ~15x less than jet fuel (~12,000 Wh/kg), making transcontinental flights impossible today. But shorter regional flights (200-400km) are becoming viable with existing tech, and several companies are already testing these. You can check out GearScouts.com to see how battery tech is advancing - the same LFP improvements are being applied to aviation.