I can drive a car that's 20% heavier due to batteries. Nobody's going to fly a commercial plane that's 40% heavier due to batteries.

Some places, current batteries just don't cut it.

The requirements for fairly large power margins for safe operation at takeoff and landing generally prevent electric airplanes from making sense and achieving FAA approval, especially for commercial applications. We are decades away from viable electric commercial aviation. Even turbine-electric series hybrids weigh and pollute more than their native kerosene-burning equivalents.

Is there another industry that is facing similar physical constraints that would hamper a transition? I understand that reducing the carbon output in concrete production is difficult to the point of being nearly economically infeasible. Other than that?

There are some ideas about cement industry: [pdf] https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...