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Thanks for finding that. So we're talking about 100 passenger/km for 12 litres of fuel (very roughly). That's.... 10-20% worse than an SUV with a single occupan

by flir 3y ago

Thanks for finding that. So we're talking about 100 passenger/km for 12 litres of fuel (very roughly). That's.... 10-20% worse than an SUV with a single occupant? Double a fuel-efficient car? And apparently 3-4x a commercial jet. With all the other problems people have mentioned, I can see why air passengers would be far more desirable from the destination's point of view.

marcosdumay 3y ago
The "on the order of" on my comment is load-bearing. I've found a lot of things from 400 l/pass*day to 100 l/pass*day, and 20 km/h to 40 km/h. The higher speeds tend to come with the highest fuel consumption. But I couldn't find good info on the correlation between them. So, they probably consume a few times more fuel than a SUV, and closer to 10 times more than a jet, but I can't get you any precision at all.