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First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity (arstechnica.com)
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[–] patruelis@lemmy.world -2 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

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

[–] son_of_darkness@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 points 57 minutes ago* (last edited 56 minutes ago)

That seems like really bad efficiency, or really expensive power. I used to have a Nissan Leaf that would do over 5 miles to the kW. Even with rather substantial battery degradation, I could get 80 miles to a charge, and a full charge would run me about $1.25 at the local utility rates.