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As cool as an inductive charging strip would be, offhand, the inherent losses as well as practically microwaving the underside of the car, would probably both b
by mjevans 2y ago
As cool as an inductive charging strip would be, offhand, the inherent losses as well as practically microwaving the underside of the car, would probably both be too much.
Now, parking lots where a robot lifts an underside contact up if there's a match, that might just work.
- KingOfCoders 2y agoWirless charging my phone is idiotic from an energy point of view, but convenient. I do thing the last 20.000 years of human progress has been driven by convenience (and security). I'd bet for the more convenient solution every day.
- ssl-3 2y agoThat's not a very fair comparison. I'm not worried at all about the power efficiency of my phone's charging process. Some napkin math suggests that my pocket supercomputer costs me at most about $1 per year to keep charged and running, or perhaps $5 over the life of the phone, when plugged in every night. I wouldn't notice or care if it were an order of magnitude worse than that at $10 per year or $50 over the life of the phone. So wireless charging of my phone doesn't bother me a bit, and it is something that I use that when it is convenient. An EV doesn't operate at that scale, though. I would care a lot about losing even 10 or 20% of charging efficiency with an EV.