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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 54 points 2 weeks ago (35 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.

[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 23 points 2 weeks ago (3 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 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 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.

[–] mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The X1 demonstrator is more comparable in weight and power to an EMB 120 Brasilia, a 30-seat turboprop. Forum chatter seems to indicate those burn around 1000 lbs per hour, or $335/hr in fuel using the $0.59/liter price you mentioned.

Dropping down to $10 is still pretty decent lol

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