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Average American drives 14,263 miles per year. Tesla Model 3 consumes 0.27 kWh/mi. Average American driving a Tesla uses 3851.01 kWh / year. 60MW reactor produ
by oittaa 4y ago
Average American drives 14,263 miles per year.
Tesla Model 3 consumes 0.27 kWh/mi.
Average American driving a Tesla uses 3851.01 kWh / year.
60MW reactor produces 525,600,000 kWh / year.
So a single NuScale reactor could power a garage with 136,483 electric cars.
- plasticchris 4y agoSure, but there are a couple of things to consider like peak consumption (everyone gets home from work and plugs in) or potentially much better utilization of electric vehicles from av adoption which might happen in the timeframes needed to get this tech out.
- aperson_hello 4y agoNuclear is pretty terrible for peak consumption though! It's perfect for base load.