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Fungus:


https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/12/worlds-first-electrified-road-for-charging-vehicles-opens-in-sweden

Fungus:
Maybe they don't need to electrify the whole system, maybe they could create drive-through charging stations so you don't have to stop or get out of your car to charge it. All you do is drive through them slowly for a few minutes and they charge your car.

(the "slow driving" part can be done automatically by the car while you eat drive-thru pie+chips, obviously)

DC1MC:
Woah, they've reinvented the trolley bus or tramway or bump cars :palm:, because if they somehow expose the live rails as in the subway it will smell fried soon.

This shit will cost the taxpayers 20 million and will offer some minimal increase in range, also on the first real snow or rain it will get defective, completely canceling any advantage whatsoever.

Really this electrical roads crap, either producing or charging, makes the snake oil a respectable product, just with marketing problems.

 DC1MC

Fungus:

--- Quote from: DC1MC on April 13, 2018, 01:21:44 pm ---This shit will cost the taxpayers 20 million and will offer some minimal increase in range, also on the first real snow or rain it will get defective, completely canceling any advantage whatsoever.

--- End quote ---

The video shows it in the snow - the Swedes know a thing or two about snow.



I admit there's a few technical challenges to overcome (eg. I'd probably put the rails further apart than that), but... it would be convenient.

(and it's not completely ludicrous - trolley buses and bumper cars work!)

DC1MC:
I cold think of some more impractical and cumbersome solutions, but it will be difficult  >:D.
If you limit the speed and path of the vehicle, then you've got railways, that are working very well, and they can use the clumsy electro trucks and van to transport the wares from the train station.

Also, the tones of copper buried in the streets will not be a magnet for thieves, no sir.

Let's admit it, is one of these projects specially made to look good on paper and suck subsidies for the "clean transportation" budget.

In Germany they've had another hare brained idea to store energy in some kind of stupid concrete spheres submerged in the sea, the most idiotic, fully financed by the government, project ever  :scared:.

  DC1MC

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