yet another dumb transport idea - charging frickin' roadways

[mikeselectricstuff]

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[SiliconWizard]

Yeah. There are vehicles that can be directly powered from the "roads" they operate on. They are called trains.

But anyway. Yet another bullshit. Reminds me a bit of the solar panel thing on cars.
No practical way it can ever *recharge cars* while on the go, as that would  mean powering them + getting enough extra power to recharge the batteries. At best, it would  improve mileage on a single charge, but you'll still need to stop the car at some point to effectively recharge it. A simple calculation will easily show you this. The amount of power that a typical road would need to deliver so that any significant amount of power is transfered wirelessly to all EVs driving on it (significant enough to at least make a sizeable difference for mileage) would be quite gigantic.

The claim "No need to stop for charging" is complete BS, but even improving mileage significantly looks suspicious.

[CJay]

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Another one hoovering up the venture capital.

Wondering what your take on this idea is?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/27/ehighways-could-slash-uk-road-freight-emissions-says-study

[mikeselectricstuff]

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Another one hoovering up the venture capital.

Wondering what your take on this idea is?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/27/ehighways-could-slash-uk-road-freight-emissions-says-study

Rather more plausible - I wonder about the reliability of a two-contact pantograph, but see that it could probably be made to work.

[CJay]

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Another one hoovering up the venture capital.

Wondering what your take on this idea is?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/27/ehighways-could-slash-uk-road-freight-emissions-says-study

Rather more plausible - I wonder about the reliability of a two-contact pantograph, but see that it could probably be made to work.

Trolleybus style, not sure how they'll deal with movement between lanes, engaging, disengaging etc and it could be fraught if 45 tons of of cargo laden truck gets tangled up on a carriageway that's got mixed traffic, wouldn't be fun to have a multi KV cable whipping around on the carriageway, but in principle it's not a terrible idea

[Haenk]

This principle has been in use 100 years ago - but it's a mixed bag. High infrastructure costs plus low reliability, but also much lower vehicle costs, risks and likely less emissons.