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Well, sure, but you could have said the same thing about modern airliners when Louis Blériot flew across the channel for the first time in 1909.

Electric aircraft are a technology that does exist, already. Two different aircraft have been built and flown over the channel already. Electric airliners will require significant additional tech development, but the fact that planes have already crossed the channel multiple times is a pretty good start.




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