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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.


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[–] frazw@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I'm all for cleaning up the air industry, but if be interested to know what kind of range is possible, what size both physical and in kwh the battery is.

I cannot see an electric passenger plane having suitable range or fast turnaround at the gate.

Imagine an airport with say 10 planes at the gate in a given moment. In intercontinental flight might need 10 MWh to complete. To charge one plane in an hour therefore needs a 10 MW power plant to charge it. 10 planes needs 100MW plant. That's 10 offshore wind turbines or maybe 500 acres of solar.