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At that point, you do not even need rocket style staging. Instead, when you are low, have a battery car meet you and dock while you are driving along the highwa
by gizmo686 11y ago
At that point, you do not even need rocket style staging. Instead, when you are low, have a battery car meet you and dock while you are driving along the highway. Once you are recharged, the battery car can go back to the charging station, or to another customer.
Of course, I do not forsee this being a cost effective approach, even without the regularty hurdles of highway speed docking.
- DennisP 11y agoYou could pull over just for docking. Then spend an hour towing the battery car, instead of waiting in one spot.
- leoc 11y agoOr maybe something like the Bombardier Primove http://primove.bombardier.com/ http://primove.bombardier.com/ inductive charging system could be viable for private cars on motorways? Apparently Bombardier has started to pitch it as something suitable for cars: http://primove.bombardier.com/media/news/news-detail-page/article/2015/09/17/experts-convinced-by-primove-solution-for-cars.html http://primove.bombardier.com/media/news/news-detail-page/ar... . I can only imagine there would be some nasty transmission losses at various stages, though.
- mactitan 11y agoIt seems this system requires the car to be stationary while charging but it would be like using cars as electric trollies. Hmmm I wonder if cars on hwys could have an automatically deployed arm for contacting a third rail or overhead wire?
- AnimalMuppet 11y agos/towing/being towed by/