Electric planes: The future of aviation?

Correspondent David Pogue checks out advances being made in aviation technology that allow a plane to be powered by batteries, promising a more environmentally-friendly, quieter and cheaper ride that may not even require a runway.

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[mihadalzayat]

If the FFA approves Boeing planes, it will surely approve these.

[GamerplayerWT]

Be nice to help avoid noise pollution with these versus the extremely loud jet fueled crafts.

[marialloyd]

This is so AWESOME! I Grew up on Air Force bases and now live 70 miles from an International Airport, 15 miles from a Reserve Airport, and 10 miles from a Medi-Vac helicopter pad. Internationals are less viewable & noisy due to their altitude, Reserve are less frequent but loud & visible, and the Helicopters rattle the house. So please start with the local helicopters!😃

[bvrsqzr]

Like how EVs were supposed to be the future of vehicles? We were definitely finding that to be not true.

[LiniSue]

Great segment of a show I have watched for over 40 yrs. Hope to ride in one b4 I pass.

[ibgarrett]

I think their future vision is a little over optimistic. Even carrying six people in their aircraft at a cost rather of an Uber isn’t going to be close. And an airliner in my lifetime? Yeah. Not going to happen.

[tvm]

Whenever I see David Pogue I’m reminded of OceanGate

[f]

You won't keep doubling every 7 years, just like moores law is no longer applicable. But i guess it sounds great for marketing

[mysterymayhem]

Battery capacity doubling every seven years is starting to sound a lot like the old moore's law of computer processing power in the 80's and 90's.

[WillsJazzLoft]

These are really great concept or proof of concept vehicles

[seventhdayissabbath]

How would these work in (winter) really cold weather? We saw this past winter where EV's didn't do very well as the cold weather drained the batteries too quickly.

[williambarnebee]

Put a small turbine on it to run a generator and you'd probably have one heck of a hybrid.... For longer flights?

[undertow]

We going to need a lot of nuclear power plants. Between everything becoming battery powered and mega AI data centers.

[SpeedNAngels]

As a 32 year combined airline and corporate pilot, I see one too many variables that would ground this fantasyland gimmick in a heartbeat. When you deal with peoples lives in aviation, failure is not an option.

[sheenestevez]

Did you say the manufacturing plant is in China? Not getting on that plane.

[kmkall]

Let’s build the power plants first
Nuclear Power Plants

[maxlinder]

I'd be skeptical about going the long distance in an electric plane... Worrying That it might NOT make the distance.... NOT too fond of planes right NOW.... 😊 just my opinion

[debbyrogers]

Love flying from the cockpit! It's so freeing❤😊

[jfkastner]

'Air Corridors' nor ATC have the Capacity to route hundreds or thousands of those eVTOLs safely across Cities, Schools, Powerplants, ...

[billkraemer]

The chase plane, full of people will be slower than the electric plane with 1 person. It’s a weight and gravity thing, physics you understand. And to say electric planes produce zero emissions is an outright lie. It may be less, but it is not zero emissions. Those batteries took a lot of carbon fuels to manufacture and transport. Don’t be so disrespectful to the people.