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It uses aviation fuel only after the electric battery is empty. And uses the fuel to run generators, the motors are all electric.


Its hard to call that the largest electric aircraft IMO. It's electric until it can't, then its not.


Well, technically, it's always electric. Sometimes the source of that electricity is from the battery system, and sometimes it's from an onboard generator.


Nah, electric means battery


You can't dip into emergency fuel for non-emergencies, cause then you could have a real emergency. It's not like a hybrid car that people could run completely on gasoline. So sounds like this plane would be electric almost all the time.




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