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If It Could be Anything With Four Wheels, What's Your Dream Car?
- ctdonath 13y agoA vapid wish list isn't interesting. Doing the math for what's feasible (even if from a "hard sci-fi" angle) is. He starts with requiring 7 passengers, or 4 with cargo, which ballparks to a minimum of 1400 pounds. Not being a car geek, I don't know what that requires power wise for average & standard-deviation roads (even if we start with just the passengers & cargo, ignoring vehicular mass 'til later) but would like to know. That then directly impacts the wishful EV battery needs, which is a straightforward capacity calculation for likely & conceivable storage. The solar power wish (to wit "cover it in photovoltaics") is just that - a wish; at an absolute maximum of 1.3kW/h per m^2 for solar gathering, this wish is going nowhere. The self-driving & data connectivity is a given, being little more now than mounting your smartphone in the window plus boring old steering/accelerate/brake remote control tech.