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If 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 i
by chihuahua 6y ago
If 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!