What electric plane range is needed to electrify US domestic air travel?

The largest US airlines carried out more than 543,000 domestic passenger flights across the contiguous United States in August 2022. They moved 61 million passengers, emitting approximately 7.8 million metric tons CO₂.

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Electric planes with a 175mi range could replace
17% of flights accounting for 233k metric tons CO₂

Range in miles

Include flights that can be replaced with one layover

175

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Replaceable flights

Direct 1.6M 23k

Layover 5.8M 67k

Out of range

12%

4%

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