The Noemi amphibious electric seaplane

I've talked about Sweden's Heart Aerospace ES-30, a four-engined electric plane capable of carrying 30 passengers for up to 200 kilometres on battery power and 800 km with hybrid assist.

Elfly's Noemi (for "no emissions") aircraft is a two-engined amphibious seaplane which can carry 9–13 passengers and up to one tonne of cargo for 200 km from city harbour to city harbour, or even, since it is amphibious, from airport to airport, needing only short distances for take-off and landing.  As they say:

City center to island? Easy. Harbor to airport? Not a problem. Sightseeing tours through fjords, natural parks, or cities with strict emission and sound regulations? By design.

With no need for bulky infrastructure, capable of taking advantage of naturally plentiful waterfronts and ubiquitous electricity, we can offer commuting, sightseeing, and cargo solutions that bolster local businesses and ecological resilience alike.

No need to commute to some faraway airport - and back again. Forget the stress of traditional flying and simply board a quiet, smooth flight right from your city harbor.

Born in Norway: A land with more than a thousand fjords and half a million lakes. With most of our population straddling a line between high mountains and the sea, it is difficult, expensive, and environmentally challenging to build adequate infrastructure. Our Noemi seaplane is an effective, non-intrusive solution born from our way of life, capable of reducing hours we’d spend in cars or trains to mere minutes in the air.

Source: Elfly

There are lots of new electric plane start-ups.  Some of them will fail, no doubt.  But this ferment of activity is very encouraging.  Technological advances happen when there is pressure to innovate, and we are clearly seeing that in the electric plane domain.  And as energy density of batteries increases, the range and payload will also increase.   Trans-oceanic flights?  Not yet.  But 200 km plus range will allow you to cross continents by hopping from airport to airport – just as they used to when the range of petrol aircraft was no better than the range of electric planes today.  With zero emissions.