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In-road charging is crazy, inefficient, and stupidly expensive. But mostly stupidly expensive. I also don't think it's necessary. As the number of electric c
by will_hughes 11y ago
In-road charging is crazy, inefficient, and stupidly expensive. But mostly stupidly expensive.
I also don't think it's necessary.
As the number of electric cars increase, the number of places you can charge your car tends to increase too - and not just Tesla's own infrastructure, but the businesses that want your money too. You can see this already on sites like plugshare - the number of places that have some kind of charging infrastructure is quite widespread.
I expect that more and more businesses which are adjacent to highways will be installing charging facilities in their parking lots for customers. You'll probably have to pay for charging, but it'll be more widespread.
- pilingual 11y agoAnything not supercharging is irrelevant when considering distance traveling. CHaDeMo and SAE are nice, but supercharging is time consuming as it is. There is a wireless car charging experiment going on in GB, and Nissan has this: https://youtu.be/9zZ2h2MRCe0?t=276 https://youtu.be/9zZ2h2MRCe0?t=276 Stopping to charge is unlikely the future, but it isn't clear what is.
- will_hughes 11y agoI heard about the GB experiment - it's not a trial on public roads though. They have a lot of significant hurdles to get over to prove the technology is workable and worthwhile. The install and maintenance costs alone I suspect will kill it unless they can make it just as durable and easily repairable as the existing road surfaces.