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First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

It looks great for small commercial flights between islands and such, even just for urgent freight, fuel has more complicated logistics and avgas has lead in it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Yep definitely. I have to question the $5 of electricity claim though. $5 of electricity would barely even get an electric car that far. What size are the batteries? Where did they get this incredibly cheap power to where it can output over a megawatt of power?

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