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World's Largest Electric Plane Flies for 27 Minutes on $5 of Power

The world’s largest battery-electric aircraft has completed its first flight using just $5 worth of electricity, with Heart Aerospace’s 25,000-pound X1 demonstrator flying for 27 minutes and putting a…

  • Heart Aerospace's X1 demonstrator flew for 27 minutes using $5 worth of electricity.
  • X1 is the largest fully electric aircraft to have flown, weighing 25,000 pounds.
  • Heart plans 30-seat ES-30 hybrid-electric aircraft to reduce operating costs by 40% by 2031.

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