>>13205838You swallowed awful lot of marketing coolaid, anon.
>ICE = complex, electric = simpleMoving parts != complexity. The manufacturing of the batteries for the electric car is well beyond the complexity of manufacturing simple ICE engine. You are intentionally throwing away crucial parts of the system and simplifying it to "electric cars are just a rotor with a coil bro".
>No, methane and LOX will be available on Mars for use in refueling rocketsIn other words abundant and readily available in bulk storage for use. You are intentionally deceiving yourself if you think the ch4 will be used only for rocket fuel.
>Fuel cost are only part of the equation. Now we're getting somewhere because your entire argument was "fuel cost" in the form of kWh to produce the fuel in the first place.
My argument is the following
1. Fuel will be available per the nature of the rocket refueling architecture
2. Local machine and chemical industry is needed for anything that will not be flag and footprints outpost
3. ICE motors and associated systems are simpler to manufacture than high-density battery powered electric equivalents
With these points it should be obvious that ICE engines in the forms of generators and vehicles are a perfectly valid idea.
I'll ask something that is a bit related and has been somewhat of a recurring theme in these threads over the years - burning manufactured methane for emergency power: yay, or nay?
