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surely its possible to invent a "plug in road" system, then cars could charge (at least on highways etc) even when driving. I had this thought ages back when EV
by bad_haircut72 2mo ago
surely its possible to invent a "plug in road" system, then cars could charge (at least on highways etc) even when driving. I had this thought ages back when EVs first came out, to tackle the problem of long charge times when doing cross country road trips.
- squigz 2mo agoI imagine this would make road repair even more common, intensive, and disruptive than it already is?
- toasty228 2mo agoOn today's episode of "HNer's totally realistic and not deluded idea"...
- bad_haircut72 2mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trolleybus_systems_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trolleybus_systems_in_... It already exists and works so, not that crazy
- organsnyder 2mo agoIt's much more difficult when the ownership of the vehicles isn't centralized.
- toasty228 2mo ago[dead]
- gerdesj 2mo agoYou could run a line overhead on pylons and put a pick up on a pole on the cars. A smaller version of these things: https://sandtoft.org/wp/ https://sandtoft.org/wp/
- rswail 2mo agoYou could combine the best of dodgem cars with drone nets by encasing all the highways in electrified wiring. Some people drive as if they're in dodgem cars as it is.
- unfitted2545 2mo agoWe could call it: Train!