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Wrong about capacity but correct about range. I have no idea why people keep thinking that batteries would work worse for 100 seats rather than nine seats. The
by Robotbeat 5y ago
Wrong about capacity but correct about range.
I have no idea why people keep thinking that batteries would work worse for 100 seats rather than nine seats. The technology is independent of scale except in the trivial sense that you need proportionally more battery and cost since you’re 10 times larger. True the range is less, but we have built jets that can go 40,000km. We don’t need that much range to do short flights, comparable in length to the California HSR project. Existing battery technology is more than sufficient for that.