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Wireless Charging (Freakin') Roadways!!! Argh!!!
The Soulman:
--- Quote from: jonovid on November 17, 2017, 07:58:41 pm ---here in Adelaide the metro, our buses - Adelaide O-Bahn busway
The O-Bahn track is made of concrete; it is elevated above ground because of the poor quality of
alluvial soils along the River Torrens, the buses are diesel or LPG gas.
if one was to electrify the O-Bahn buses, how would you do it. as the Adelaide Metro trains are now electric.
dynamic electric vehicle induction charging on the track, as buses do not have time for sitting around idle doing nothing
while charging batteries. so induction charging on the track is how you would do it.
and as induction charging is about minimum clearance and maximum induction efficiently.
however we do not have a shortage of diesel or LPG gas. but we do have a shortage of electricity. so this may not happen.
a final from me :-//
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First get your electricity shortage sorted, you guys have plenty of surface area for large pv systems windmills storage (pumped hydro, hydrogen, etc.).
Second: your crazy buses are a perfect candidate for a overhead line system, add a battery that charges while on the "track" and you don't have to put lines in residential areas.
Lord of nothing:
How about a Local Railway Tram?
Thw can go up to 100km/h and operate 100% emission free (if the not get powered by Coal :-DD).
In Vienna (and in some City in Romania?!) the World first tram operate with the lowest floor in the World:
jonovid:
--- Quote from: Lord of nothing on November 18, 2017, 02:51:48 pm ---How about a Local Railway Tram?
Thw can go up to 100km/h and operate 100% emission free (if the not get powered by Coal :-DD).
In Vienna (and in some City in Romania?!) the World first tram operate with the lowest floor in the World:
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that tram with the lowest floor in the World.
like to see how they got the tram floor articulation to work! the bendy bits.
as for wireless charging roadways. its a work in progress IMO.
Red Squirrel:
If done right an electric toll route system would be cool, but NOT wireless. Something like the trains use like posted above. Make it a standard so that all cars are compatible. Maybe overhead is not the way to go as it would be awkward, maybe something like slot cars, though snow/ice would be an issue. Essentially it would be something that some highways could have and you would pay a small fee to use it (basically to cover cost of electricity/maintenance). It would basically extend your range. Though more I think about it, any money that goes towards this stuff would probably be better off going in better/electric public transportation.
Perhaps a ground ferry system. Basically an electric train to efficiently travel long distances where you can park your car in it. That way you don't need to design a system to work with cars, you design it to work with that particular train. There would be chargers onboard to also charge cars. Long stretches of highways could have these as an option. But that does not sound as cool as "wireless charging roadways".
Lord of nothing:
--- Quote ---Basically an electric train to efficiently travel long distances where you can park your car in it.
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something like this:
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