>>13486724>Any car or truck that can't drive coast to coast in a week under real world conditions Why do you continue to gatekeep when you don't even know enough about this subject to know that your gate isn't even a barrier? The current record for a EV from LA to New York is 45 hours and 16 minutes, made by a stock Taycan. Most people have never driven across the country, the average distance driven per day in urban or rural areas is much less than the average EV range. The average range is also perfectly fine or road trips and with a V3 supercharger you can add up to 75 miles of charge in 5 minutes so you charge during your pitstops and you're not delayed much, if any.
https://uk.motor1.com/news/464945/porsche-taycan-beats-electric-cannonball-record/>there will be a pressing need to do ground surveys of the entire planet, as quickly as possible, to determine colony sites.Again you're not even close to being correct. Landing sites have already been picked out, there is no rush to find more, and if that was the case spending a very long time developing a compact nuclear reactor for rovers would be the worst approach possible when you could just have more rovers powered by solar, batteries, and/or RTGs, which would be far more effective.
>BEV range is often estimated doing slow city driving on flat ground as wellFalse. Only city mileage which includes things like stop signs, traffic lights, traffic, which you wouldn't have on Mars. The EPA estimates highway speeds by driving at highway speeds, obviously.
>>13486766Enough shitposting and posting the same refuted lie. Post a lightweight reactor design that comes close to batteries. It doesn't exist, and pretending that it does is just retarded. You can even ignore the shielding mass.
>they all have shittons of redundant shielding beyond the bare minimum that is needed.Funny you ignore the fact that naval reactors have infinite coolant and then cry that the shielding is redundant.
