“That’s all very nice. But the fact remains that gasoline has 100 times the energy density of a lithium ion battery and that pretty much limits battery powered airplanes to publicity stunt flights.”
Multiple airlines are saying you are wrong.
“Multiple airlines say you’re wrong” just a reminder physics is not determined by woke corporate marketing departments. Physics doesn’t care how intense your devotion to batteries is the fact remains their energy density is two orders of magnitude less than petroleum fuels.
A Boeing 767 has a capacity of 23,980 gallons of jet fuel, weighing about 156,000 lbs. and a payload capacity of 115,700 lbs.
The problem for batteries is that the plane has a maximum take-off weight of 412,000 lbs. Even without a payload, the battery powered plane would have a markefly shorter range than the present aircraft fully loaded.