Thanks Dale you made my point. Electric vehicles are a niche market and don’t meet the needs the transportation needs of the nation. You are absolutely right about the cost of emerging technologies; the cost always goes down, personal electronics are a great example.
I do hope that electric power plant technology exceeds but until someone develops a unit for aviation that provides the equivalent performance to say a 172 or Archer I’m not buying in. In today’s world the cost of R&D, DT&E, certification, and manufacturing startup represent SIGNIFICANT investments. There just aren’t that many companies that have the assets, motivation and commitment to go from point A to B. Who knows what the certification requirements for these units and their airframes will be in the future; that’s just added risk. Those costs will get passed thru sales. General aviation sales is a very low volume business Strap in, things are gonna get pricey.