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Fair points.

But the point that CATL makes with this announce is that before this capacity boost, electric planes were a complete joke. Now, they are only somewhat funny.

What I am more excited about is that electrically pumped rockets are now a lot more practical. As an example, Electron is such a rocket ([1]). It can now reduce the weight of the battery pack and increase payload.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford_(rocket_engine)



> before this capacity boost, electric planes were a complete joke. Now, they are only somewhat funny.

Ha! Well put.




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