• fizzle@quokk.au
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    5 hours ago

    Literally the first sentence:

    The first flight of the largest battery-electric aircraft to take to the skies lasted nearly half an hour while costing just $5 of electricity.

    Can your Porsche 914 fly for half an hour on $5 of fuel ?

    • ORbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      37 minutes ago

      My 1975 was tuned for distance. When I drove it from Key Largo to Seattle, it did 35mpg average over the 3500 miles I drove. That car was lost in an accident, sadly.

      25 miles per gallon. 30 minutes would be 12.5 miles on half a gallon.

      My current one does about 25-30 mpg. It weighs 1950 pounds. So, yes. It can comfortably do half an hour on one gallon or so and have fuel left to get me to a refill.

      They have flat 4 two liter VW engines. Extremely efficient if tuned correctly. One top of that, there is a direct 1 to 1 drop-in electric kit for these. When my current engine dies, I have an electric kit I’ll put into it to make it an 914E.