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I think Infiniti's induction charging concept seems much cooler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlYADNqxrPw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlYADNqxrPw
by cmiller1 11y ago
I think Infiniti's induction charging concept seems much cooler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlYADNqxrPw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlYADNqxrPw
- mikeash 11y agoThat's OK for overnight charging, if you don't mind paying a little extra for the electricity due to losses. But for fast charging, those losses translate into massive waste heat. A Tesla supercharger, for example, tops out at 120kW of power. If the inductive charger is 90% efficient (which I think is a realistic number) then that's 12kW of heat to dissipate. That's a lot. The car itself has similar losses when charging, and has a hefty cooling system to keep up with it, and it's going into a massive battery. Cooling a small inductive charging pad could get interesting.