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Trying to develop a battery that can do a million miles on a single charge right now would be like telling a Chinese kingdom circa 500 AD to develop a working m
by crooked-v 6y ago
Trying to develop a battery that can do a million miles on a single charge right now would be like telling a Chinese kingdom circa 500 AD to develop a working moon rocket because they have fireworks.
- ReactiveJelly 6y agoAt least we now know that a moon rocket is even chemically possible
- chihuahua 6y agoIf you think about the energy required to drive a million miles, all concentrated and stored somehow in a car, it would be extremely dangerous. If that energy is suddenly released in an accident, it would probably destroy a city block. 1e6 miles at 3kwh per mile = 3e5kwh = 1.08e12 joules = 0.25 tons of TNT. Not sure how many buildings that would destroy, I have no practical experience with explosives. But it's a decent sized truck bomb.
- augusto-moura 6y agoI don't know, energy doesn't need to be that unstable, hidrogen fusion gives a lot of energy and don't need much mass of it, not more than current fossil fuel methods. PS.: Of course no fusion reactor that fits in a car will probably de developed in the next years
- gonzo41 6y agoYep lets hope Telsa cars stay expensive and we get a public hyperloop instead and we can just ride bicycles around in the clean air. Remember when Richard Hammond crashed the Rimic, it burned for 5 days!