Anything electronic, whether car or a plane has the cool effect. Lots of instant power/torque but only limited by range. Thus the need to recharge which is a major inconvenience.

We all agree that electric cars and planes are super expensive to manufacture and or buy and also with maintenance, only a limited number of folks or dealers can work on them with their complicated computer systems.

With an electric car, if there’s a problem you pull over but with an e-plane, you go down. (Yes gas powered planes go down too but it’s rare as their range takes them further) The weight of electric planes alone are enough to make them more dangerous than fuel powered ones that can fly around dumping fuel in an emergency situation that electric planes which carry the same dead weight throughout the entire flight.

We live in a busy world and having multiple planes at many airports stranded or waiting for a couple of hours to recharge is a slow waste of valuable time for the business. That means to keep passengers flying without delays you’d have to move them into different planes along with their luggage at different airports while their original plane charges. If you have to do this at every airport every 2-4 hours if they going a long distance of 7-15 hrs then it will actually cost the airports or the industry more money to operate.

Bottom line is that these electric planes are a long way to become viable for the industry since most are for carrying cargo. It’s a bad investment for any airline company if intended for carrying passengers along with their luggage. Maybe for very short distances will it save fuel cost.