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Post by deyana on Jan 31, 2024 18:42:06 GMT -5
Wireless charging: The roads where electric vehicles never need to plug inThe first wireless electric road in the US has been installed in Detroit, allowing electric vehicles to charge up as they drive along. But at nearly $2m (£1.6m) per mile, is this really the future of transport? It looks like any other stretch of asphalt in cities across the US. But drive down 14th Street in Detroit, Michigan in the right vehicle, and something strange happens. This is the first public place in the US where you can drive an electric vehicle and it doesn't drain the battery – it charges it. The quarter-mile (400m) section of road through the Corktown area of Detroit is a pilot of a wireless technology that is capable of charging vehicles as they drive over it.  www.bbc.com/future/article/20240130-wireless-charging-the-roads-where-electric-vehicles-never-need-to-plug-in
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Post by deyana on Jan 31, 2024 18:43:00 GMT -5
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Post by deyana on Jan 31, 2024 18:43:39 GMT -5
Sounds complicated, but I guess it could work. Maybe this is the way to go for the future?
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Post by deyana on Jan 31, 2024 18:44:31 GMT -5
Can't drive off the main road though. At least not at this point in time.
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Post by fuzzems on Jan 31, 2024 19:19:48 GMT -5
Till it's covered with ice, snow, debris, puddles etc. Where will the money come from for this?
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Post by deyana on Feb 1, 2024 23:52:01 GMT -5
Till it's covered with ice, snow, debris, puddles etc. Where will the money come from for this? I reckon it's going to be a case of yet another idea bites the dust... |
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Post by deyana on Feb 1, 2024 23:53:54 GMT -5
Maybe we should go back to the Electric trams?
Or sky trains like they have in Vancouver.
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Post by sauerkraut on Feb 2, 2024 10:49:29 GMT -5
That's kinda like a cable car only the electric cables are buried in the pavement- It's very expensive plus the cost of fixing the road when it goes bad and what about winter and snow & ice covered roads?
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Post by sauerkraut on Feb 2, 2024 10:50:43 GMT -5
Till it's covered with ice, snow, debris, puddles etc. Where will the money come from for this? Yep the corrosive salt will corrode the wires and they will need replacing. It could be more practical in a warm climate. |
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Post by deyana on Feb 4, 2024 19:06:51 GMT -5
That's kinda like a cable car only the electric cables are buried in the pavement- It's very expensive plus the cost of fixing the road when it goes bad and what about winter and snow & ice covered roads? Around here, they can hardly find the money to fix the roads we already have. Each Spring time we end up with lots pot holes, as large trucks drive over them all year around. How much can the tax payer expect to put in for these super-chargeable roads? Good ideas can need a great deal of money to make functional. If it was that simple, we could very well make an underground tunnel that takes us to Europe from the East Coast. I don't see anyone coming forward to foot the bill for that though. |
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Post by mrright on Feb 5, 2024 10:12:06 GMT -5
and then get cancer. what idiots
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Post by sauerkraut on Feb 6, 2024 10:34:13 GMT -5
Another big issue with EV's is the rare earth metals used in making them & the batteries, there is a limited amount of those metals and they are mined by child labor in most cases, there is alot of toxic chemicals used in the batteries, the life of the batteries is not as long as first predicted, where will all those toxic batteries go in some landfill?
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