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First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] Zarobi@aussie.zone 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

$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.

[โ€“] Thorry@feddit.org 1 points 32 minutes ago

Yeah except this is a tiny little plane and a 737 is huge. So those comparisons don't make much sense.