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Originally Posted by RedDevil
If it all goes well the lunar buggies are no longer the most remote cars.
Wonder if it could actually drive on Mars? Too cold there, I guess, but other than that?
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Interesting thought. Does the M3 have a heating system to maintain battery temperature? I know the Bolt does.
I can think of no reason why it wouldn't function on Mars besides the battery being too cold. Perhaps the motors would eventually overheat due to lack of cooling from the thin atmosphere, but then again they wouldn't have to be pushed very hard, and the temperature is very cold.
That makes me wonder how the Lunar rover rejected heat. It essentially operated in an insulated vacuum. Of the 3 ways to reject heat (Conduction, convection, radiation), only radiation is possible in the vacuum of space.