Maybe if you're going really bare minimum or something. You still need quite a bit of the other gear as well, unless you do any repairs at home.

I've seen quite a few of the guys that fly electric helicopters and they have some really expensive chargers and a lot of field equipment. Even fixed wing guys have quite a bit, electric or not.

I guess the equivalent would be a nitro guy showing up with a jug of fuel with a hand-crank pump on the bottle and a glow igniter.