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First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

They didnt say the planes weighted 25000 pounds. They said it could exceed 25000 pounds. My guess is that not even the passenger seats were installed in this run.

1mw of power from the 4 engines. For 30 minutes, 500kWh. So for $5 they paid 1 cent per kWh. Somewhere there's a bunch of bullshit hidden.

[โ€“] ScottyTheEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

Well, its possible the motors weren't at 100% at all times, but I'd imagine that at that maths its still 1-2 cents per kWh, which still seems quite off.