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[-] chonkyninja@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Assuming $8 for energy, let’s say $0.12/kWh you’re looking at 64kWH. That’s like 1kWh/mi, which is pretty fucking bad. There’s no way they’re scaling this up, because the battery has to weigh at least 1 Ton. So to double the distance you’d need to initially add double the battery, but that’s equivalent of adding 8 fat fucking Americanos to the payload, there by reducing the distance you can travel.

Meanwhile a Cessna Jet gets like 27/mi per gallon. So 2.5 gallons of fuel gets the same travel distance, and that only weighs like 20lbs.

Also, haven’t looked lately, but last I remembered, jet fuel was like $11/gal.

[-] Corn@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago
[-] Xey@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Right? I pay more than three times that at 0.38€/kWh or 0.45$/kWh. Must be somewhere with tons of hydro.

[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Ontario is mostly nuclear with some hydro and lastly some fossil sprinkled in. But I suspect a lot also comes from 100% hydro Quebec.

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