@independent: World’s largest battery-electric plane cost £3.70 to run 27-minute test. On Wednesday (12 August), Sweden-founded, US-based company Heart Aerospace flew its 30-seat plane, called the X1, from Plattsburgh International Airport in New York. #plane #Science #engineering #innovation #electricplane

Steve :

Imagine a lithium-ion fire 40,000 feet in the air.

Buddhist for Israel 🇮🇱☸️🕎 :

£3.7 for the flight, £1000 for the coffin.

Pixel Pilot :

Max flight time 27 mins

André :

It's the dawn of a new age

Bakuru Hussain Thaakihaa :

How much does 27 minutes of jet fuel cost to compare?

bostonian :

They’ll never pass those savings onto customers - not a chance in hell. Somehow it will be even more expensive.

Me, Myself and 3468 others :

there's gotta be a catch coz otherwise airlines would rush to order it

derkaiserof :

now say how all minerals are mined for that battery and how many children died because of that

nobodyeither :

Save a dollar on fuel spend it on depreciation

TheOne :

Lightning creates emf.. plane can potentially fall

Graeme Clark :

I'll stick to real planes not plug in and hope there's enough charge to get to the destination 👎.

JG from Manchester UK :

Maybe we can do this, so long as petrol dollar doesn’t buy it and shut it down.

Ty :

celtic_forever :

just aint gonna take us anywhere tho is it

Likeabull :

So why is the cost symbol in Pounds?

Asuslucky :

Empty plane

MTLobserver :

Ai

FM :

Safe travel inside 26 minutes

Fuk Yüü :

😏 yeah right with 2010 electricity prices

Rahat🙂 :

So they dont allow ppl to bring power bank bcz it’s unsafe yet they fly a plane using Lithium batteries🙂

Smenny :

They don’t fly for long at all so not in our lifetime for cheap flights

bandabroad :

Lithium=Flintstones Sodium=Jetsons😎

CanadianMountainMan :

47% of New Yorks electricity is produced by natural gas does this make it a hybrid?

captbuttwizz :

how much coal was used to produce it

Tee Dub Studio :

What's the noise level, all videos of this plane have musical background