AutoMy favourite EV is a space busCanoo’s custom EVs are just what NASA’s astronauts orderedWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
AutoMy favourite EV is a space busCanoo’s custom EVs are just what NASA’s astronauts orderedWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Canoo’s custom EVs are just what NASA’s astronauts ordered
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
(Image credit: Canoo)
(Image credit: Canoo)
NASA knows a thing or two aboutEVs: it was scooting around the moon in the battery-powered Lunar Roving Vehicle back in 1971. So it’s quite an achievement for an EV company to get NASA’s seal of approval.
Canoo, whose EV platform is designed for maximum flexibility, has provided three Crew Transportation Vehicles (CTVs) to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There, the CTVs will be used to transport astronauts to the launch pad for the Artemis lunar missions, the first human lunar landing in over 50 years.
The Artemis II will be the first crewed mission that’s part of Nasa’s plans to establish a long-term presence on the moon, and viewers ofFor All MankindonApple TV+ will be hoping that presence is a lot more peaceful than its fictional counterpart.
What exactly is a CTV?
A CTV isn’t just an EV with the NASA logo slapped on its side; it’s highly adapted to suit NASA’s very particular requirements. A CTV’s job is to carry not just the astronauts but their flight support crew and equipment to the launch pad – and those astronauts are fully suited and booted, so you need to give some serious thought to their comfort over the nine-mile journey so they arrive fresh and ready to begin the next stage of their trip, a mere 240,000 miles. Canoo hasn’t revealed images of the interior just yet but promises to do so later this year.
The CTVs are a milestone for Canoo, of course, but also for NASA: they’re the first zero-emission crew transports built for the space agency.
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