I am 75 now, and doubt that I will own an electric car, truck or airplane in my lifetime. I strongly object to the current fad in battery tech on environmental/resource allocation grounds, but that and the whole lack of accuracy on climate is a subject for somewhere else at another time. My lack of interest or intent for cars, trucks and airplanes are because I tend to use these things to GO somewhere. If I had a city commute, and if anyone was to develop a battery tech that didn’t so much offend my sensibilities I might be a candidate. Heck, I even OWN an electric manlift so I am not only a fan but a genuine user. I also don’t drive my manlift to visit my grandkids several hours away.
Now, you may think my absolute disgust with the current direction of prime power in aviation has turned is just because I am a grumpy old fart. While the latter may be true, it has nothing to do with why I find this fascination with electric crap so objectionable. In case you hadn’t noticed: these things are happening because the businesses that are hyping this stuff are NOT funded and developed by entrepreneurs and businessmen - they are built by pitch artists who such those billions out of the “investment” market where people speculate to make 100x returns on their money, not businesses that are in it for the long haul of 5 to 10% dividends from making a better product and serving your customer better.
There is a LOT of room left in ICE efficiency that needs to be developed, but the money is all going to pitchmen and “climate change experts” - not to engineers and real scientists who can actually make our lives and our world a better and more sustainable place.
The bottom line is to be sustainable we need to concentrate on how to do a lot less instead of piddling away our time and money making more expensive, more polluting and more resource depleting ways of doing more of the things that put us in peril in the first place.