Rethink Energy has come across Elysian Aircraft lately, a Dutch aerospace company that is designing a battery-powered, fully electric commercial airplane. The goal here is to transport 90 passengers over distances up to 800 km. We reached out to get some answers to our questions in order to reach a conclusion over how viable batteries can be within the commercial aviation industry. To put this into context, a turboprop-powered regional aircraft (De Havilland Canada Dash 8) can carry around 40 passengers for up to 2,000 km. So Elysian’s E9X can do double the people for half the distance. This does put it in a nice bracket in terms of market potential as plenty of the trips flown by the Dash…