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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.
Literally the first sentence:
Can your Porsche 914 fly for half an hour on $5 of fuel ?
I can fly a glider for half an hour for $0 in fuel or electricity
In the right conditions I can fly a Cessna 150 for $5 in fuel. Just have to shop around the whole country for cheapest fuel and best flight cknditions. So exactly like they did
These guys have the cheapest electricity in the country considering they advertise 1MW power output that apparently only ends up coating $5 over 27 minutes
EVs make a lot of sense. This plane does not, nor does any currently proposed design for an all-electric plane