For both land and air, total payload is another hard limit. Tesla achieves admirable results for a passenger vehicle by using high energy/volume and energy/mass batteries integrated into the vehicle structure itself. Battery EV trucks have had range limits of measured in single-digit kilometers. Their fuel-based counterparts exceed four digits (1,000 km). Accellerating, decellerating, and managing mass costs joules.
Range is quite another issue. A Cesna 172 has a 1,289 km range, four times the Rolls-Royce prototype, and carries more than just the piolot and fuel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_172#Specifications_(172...
For both land and air, total payload is another hard limit. Tesla achieves admirable results for a passenger vehicle by using high energy/volume and energy/mass batteries integrated into the vehicle structure itself. Battery EV trucks have had range limits of measured in single-digit kilometers. Their fuel-based counterparts exceed four digits (1,000 km). Accellerating, decellerating, and managing mass costs joules.