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First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity (arstechnica.com)
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[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

This article is idiotic.

$5 cost. 25,000 pounds. BUT OVER WHAT FUCKING DISTANCE?

$5 gets me 23 miles in my Delica. It gets me 100 miles on my motorcycle. It gets me 30 miles in my Porsche 914. But the article says nothing about distance.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 6 points 38 minutes ago

Literally the first sentence:

The first flight of the largest battery-electric aircraft to take to the skies lasted nearly half an hour while costing just $5 of electricity.

Can your Porsche 914 fly for half an hour on $5 of fuel ?

[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I'm guessing it mostly flew in circles, since it's a test flight that happened "at Plattsburgh International Airport" instead of between two locations. 27 minute flight, whatever that's worth.

[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 1 points 13 minutes ago

$10 an hour still seems really good though right? I'm not sure how much Airlines pay currently for fuel though.

Only article I could find was this: https://flyinginsight.com/2026/02/14/how-much-does-it-cost-to-fuel-an-airplane/

On average, a 737 or A320 consumes between 2,500 and 3,000 litres of fuel per hour

Take a typical two-hour flight, such as Amsterdam to Barcelona. The total fuel burn would be approximately 5,500 litres. At a reference price of $0.59 per litre, that translates to around $3,200 in fuel costs.

So that's $10 an hour down from $1600 an hour? Seems decent.

[–] patruelis@lemmy.world -1 points 19 minutes ago (1 children)

23 miles lol. For $5 I get about 125miles in my Atto3

[–] son_of_darkness@lemmy.world 1 points 15 minutes ago

With horse power and cargo capacity an airplane has I really doubt it