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.

Maybe dropping battery just before landing could be a thing - on a small parachute or some catch ground in front of landing strip.

Silly as it sounds just thinking :)

Sounds about as realistic as shooting nuclear waste into space.

Nuclear waste can be stored on the Moon. Just be careful that it doesn't overheat and turn into a giant rocket, propelling the Moon out of the solar system.

I have an imagined invention where battery packs drop off an electric jet as it cruises and they glide to a landing somewhere when they are out of power.

The maximum take off and landing weights for a Cessna 172 are the same, so I don't think a heavier landing gear would be required.

Harbour Air successfully tested electric plane based on De Havilland Beaver. This is still a super short distance but I think the longest route Harbour air has is Vancouver <-> Seattle and it's a 55 minute flight.

Whistler Victoria is about that long too