70% of total lifecycle energy occurs before the vehicle moves

that's partially because the operating costs are very low, which is a good thing.

Grid transmission losses

what about the cost of shipping gasoline?

The tires on an electric vehicle[...]

this is part of what leads me to think your entire article is just anti-EV sentiment wrapped in a facade of being about planes, so you can point to the planes when people criticize it. most people here are not arguing that it makes sense to put batteries in planes, they're pointing out the very obvious inaccuracies in basic calculations like the $5/KWh the article leads with. and I also take issue with the un-cited sources (a link to a home page is not a cited source).