> You are saying that they took off with a normal amount of power for a plane that size, then cruised around using an amount of power (45kw) that wouldn’t keep a two person plane 1/20th the weight airborne.
No, I’m not saying anything about 45 kW, you’re, again mistaking kW for kWh.
> Citing drag from a Tesla is kind of irrelevant because the whole way an airplane works is by creating lift via drag.
That’s already included in the drag coefficient that I quoted, and I know what induced drag is. Airliners are incredibly slippery because of their shape, a Skyhawk (or any other small GA plane) is a brick compared to that.
I’m not arguing about the $5 figure, it might as well be $20, I don’t know where they buy their electricity, but it’s still a very low number compared to anything burning Jet-A or avgas, and it’s absolutely a “low hundreds of kilowatt hours” number.