>>1962089nta but he's right
>are they able to workno, according to NASA (and tacitly by all three major civil aircraft manufacturers) battery technology to store the necessary amount of energy for it to be worth the switch is 50+ years away, and United/Air Canuckistan/whomever is just virtue signalling to get ESG points for a pipe dream
>will they replace short haulsMAYBE extremely short flights, like interisland or in the Northeast US, again the turnaround time and infrastructure required is an order of magnitude more difficult than electric cars
>what about widebodieslmao no
If I were a betting man I would go all in on biofuels or hydrogen, easier to retrofit multibillion dollar aircraft fleets and the stored energy potential of hydrocarbons blows electric out of the water
