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Re:All-electric Cessna Grand Caravan makes maiden flight by bobly_today on Saturday May 30, 2020 @10:15PM (#23366623)
How much would that cost with conventional fuel?
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Re:All-electric Cessna Grand Caravan makes maiden flight by TylerE on Saturday May 30, 2020 @10:17PM (#23366627)
A lot. Perhaps 75 gallons/hr. Jet fuel is currently a about $1/gallon.

Even a much smaller plane like a 172 can easily burn $50/hr just in fuel. Much lower flow rate, but it’s leaded a gas at about $4.50/gal

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Re:All-electric Cessna Grand Caravan makes maiden flight by PunksATawnyFill on Sunday May 31, 2020 @02:39AM (#23367711)
Way more than that these days. There’s only one supplier of 100LL, and even they don’t want to be in the business anymore.
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Re:All-electric Cessna Grand Caravan makes maiden flight by ReticentVole on Sunday May 31, 2020 @11:07AM (#23370011)
Its not just the fuel cost, maintenance of electric motors is substantially cheaper. Plus, there's no need to transport and store specialty Avgas.
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