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Boeing-backed US upstart reckons it'll be building electric airliners

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Re: Reality check time?

Batteries have awful energy-to-mass ratios when compared to good old flammable liquids.

Also batteries don't lose weight as the energy is consumed so the overall energy requirements will be slightly higher.

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