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Looks like .

Given Boeing's inability to build a fully flying functional plane and Tesla's track record for spontaneous flames, I'm not quite ready to board one of these anytime soon.

Looks like [a few airlines are buying these](https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/these-planes-are-battery-operated-will-that-fly/ar-AA124J6D). Given Boeing's inability to build a fully flying functional plane and Tesla's track record for spontaneous flames, I'm not quite ready to board one of these anytime soon.

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Absolutely not, in a gas plane if the engine goes out it turns into a glider; in battery powered engines there's a greater than zero chance the battery turns into thermite.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

I would think with battery powered, the plane turns into a large sinking weight carreening into the ground. Not like you can glide a plane when it weighs 4 times more than a standard one