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"Charge it for about 5-10 minutes, and then not have to worry about it again for at least a couple of weeks." So you would rather have engineers solve the impo
by ClumsyPilot 5y ago
"Charge it for about 5-10 minutes, and then not have to worry about it again for at least a couple of weeks."
So you would rather have engineers solve the impossible, and then have 2,000,000 cars carry around additional 300kg of batteries?
How about getting city officials and landlord to do their actual job they are getting paid for?
And don't go 'oh no i have curbside parking' on. Me - you have millioms of lampposts in every city, don't you? They are already connected to power, is it too much to ask for all of them to be equiped with sockets?
- ncmncm 5y agoHow many watts are these lights provisioned for? Is charging at 200W going to get you charged and ready for the next day's driving?
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoWhere one earth did you get 200W if an ordinarybextention cord can do 2'000+?
- ncmncm 5y agoDo you really imagine the existing wiring can handle 2kW for each of a hundred cars along a street?
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoThere are roughly 3 cars and lampposts both in London. What do you think makes more sense, forcing all cars to spend extra £7,000 and 300 kg of rare materials on extra battery capacity they shouldn't need, and then replacing those batteries every 15 years as they and cars are replaced? Or picking up a shovel and upgrading some cable that will serve for 100 years? Like these folks are doing? https://www.ubitricity.com/ https://www.ubitricity.com/
- ncmncm 5y agoProvisioning more power in order to provide streetside charging would be a boon for apartment dwellers with electric cars. That might involve pulling more wiring through conduits, or even raising the voltage on existing wiring and placing transformers, all of which can be done. My comment was only on whether you could charge many cars without any of that.