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What about using very high voltage like 100kV? All the heavy parts could be in the vehicle and the charging station. I did find this using 13 kV: https://www.e
by akvadrako 6y ago
What about using very high voltage like 100kV? All the heavy parts could be in the vehicle and the charging station.
I did find this using 13 kV: https://www.energytrend.com/news/20180904-12449.html https://www.energytrend.com/news/20180904-12449.html
- londons_explore 6y agoWhat material will you make the insulators from? Will the insulation itself not be too heavy?
- akvadrako 6y agoHow about these: https://www.schleich.com/en/product/high-voltage-cables-en/ https://www.schleich.com/en/product/high-voltage-cables-en/ 100 kV DC, outer diameter 14 mm
- londons_explore 6y agoNow that's the kind of thing. How many amps will that center core take (presumably not enough as is), and how might we modify that design to take more amps? 14mm is perhaps even smaller and lighter than needed for this application too - how might you expect diameter/weight to scale for cables over 100kV?
- akvadrako 6y agoThe plugs are rated for 5A so lets say that; 2.2mm core is overkill. 10kV is 5mm, 65kV is 10mm, so something like sqrt(V) + 4mm. I guess 500 kV would be around 30mm for each wire, which is starting to get unwieldy.