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Assuming 500 watt hours per mile for Cybertruck (likely the first Tesla vehicle using it), a million miles is 1.8e19 ergs. 1 kiloton TNT is 4.184e19 ergs. Mil
by ctdonath 6y ago
Assuming 500 watt hours per mile for Cybertruck (likely the first Tesla vehicle using it), a million miles is 1.8e19 ergs.
1 kiloton TNT is 4.184e19 ergs.
Million mile battery is 0.43 kilotons TNT, about 1/35th of a Davey Crockett man-portable nuke.
- m463 6y agoWell, a more reasonable value for a tesla is 300 wh/mi, and a tesla could pull off 1,000,000 miles of range with a mere 12.91 gm of plutonium. If the the cybertruck really needed 500 wh/mi, it would require a bigger million-mile battery - say 21.53 gm of plutonium. But you know the environmental folks would complain bitterly, so maybe tesla should offer a "green" cybertruck option with a heavier 22.66 gm thorium battery. It will probably require retuning the suspension for the extra weight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_capacity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_capacity
- ctdonath 6y agoJust have to efficiently & compactly convert thorium to electricity at a suitable rate in a sub-1000 lb package priced under $65,000 (cost of battery + 500,000 kWh).
- ctdonath 6y agoI picked 500Wh/mi because Cybertruck will likely be first to use the new batteries, and will require more power than the cars/SUVs.