With the increasingly stringent emission policies, new energy vehicles have begun to embark on the historical stage, but for now, the current new energy vehicles have a variety of experience shortcomings, such as electric vehicles are difficult to break through the bottleneck of battery technology, battery life is greatly affected by temperature and speed, and rely heavily on charging facilities; hydrogen energy vehicle technology is still in a bottleneck period, and the cost of hydrogen production is still the biggest obstacle to its development. So some netizens have "whimsically" put forward the idea of nuclear energy cars, in fact, this is not a fantasy, because there have been real nuclear cars in history.
Ford nuclear-powered car Nucleon
The Nucleon is the only truly built nuclear-powered car to date, and it's still lying in the Henry Ford Museum. However, there was no mass production after all, because a rear-end collision could lead to a small "Chernobyl" nuclear accident. At that time, the Ford Group was in the ascendant, and may have felt that it wanted to play something new, so in 1958, this nuclear-powered car turned out to be a nuclear-powered car, which mainly used the heat generated by uranium fission to promote the operation of the steam engine, injected a nuclear fuel, and had an endurance of 8046 kilometers, destroying all today's models. Nuclear-powered supercar Raven
Fighting nation Russia once hoped to launch a nuclear-powered supercar called the Raven. The design of this car still looks very avant-garde even now. At the time, Raven belonged to Rada, a brand that had once been a thunderbolt in the supercar world.
Raven is a supercar owned by Lada, equipped with a V8 mid-engine, which can achieve zero-hundred acceleration of 3.2 seconds at the fastest, and the Russians want to install a nuclear-powered reactor on this car, but unfortunately this plan ended with Lada's bankruptcy.
Cadillac nuclear-powered car WTF
About 10 years ago, Cadillac began research and development of nuclear-powered cars and launched a concept car, the WTF (World Thorium Fuel). It's a nuclear-powered car fueled by thorium, which can be converted into uranium-233, or atomic fuel, in a nuclear reaction. This generates electricity to drive the vehicle's motors. Sci-fi-like like flying saucer, a single injection of nuclear fuel, can travel more than 8,000 km. The head of WTF has said, "It can be opened for 100 years without maintenance at all."
Audi Mesarthim F-Tron Quattro's nuclear energy supercar Since then, scientists still have not given up the exploration of nuclear energy vehicles, in 2016 Audi released a nuclear energy supercar, the whole vehicle is full of futuristic sense, it is said that it is still the combat nation Russians, it seems that the Russians have high hopes for nuclear energy. However, this car is still the stage of the concept car, and it is difficult to achieve mass production.
From the practical point of view, the endurance of nuclear fuel vehicles can generally reach more than 8000km, which can be added once every six months or even once a year, and as long as there is no leakage, there are basically no emissions, which is a very efficient energy mode. But nuclear fuel vehicles still need to break through several problems, first of all, the problem of the miniaturization of nuclear reactors, for the current technology, there are still difficulties; secondly, the problem of nuclear radiation, which poses a certain threat to the health of the driver and the passenger, how to control nuclear radiation is a problem at present; and finally, the problem of safety, once an accident occurs, it may lead to nuclear accidents, resulting in irreparable losses. Therefore, for now, the mass production of nuclear-powered vehicles is still far away, but I believe that with the breakthrough of technology, we can finally find a solution to the problem, and finally make nuclear-powered vehicles the hope of new energy vehicles.