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.
Why not charge wirelessly? It works on my phone.
Those electric rails are not on the surface, they use a pickup in a buried conduit which the pickup goes into. That means the vehicle cannot attach or detach from the power rail unless there is a door for them to do so. Overall it's a useless boondoggle.
The same technical challenges that have existed for 120 years? This is literally 1890s technology. https://books.google.com/books?id=JgwAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA484&lpg=PA484#v=onepage&q=conduit&f=false
But sex it up with "green" PR and you've got somebody a nice income for as long as they can keep the hype train going.
Why not charge wirelessly? It works on my phone.
Might work, too. It certainly solves the "snow" problem.
What's the likely efficiency of that @ kW power levels?
The same technical challenges that have existed for 120 years? This is literally 1890s technology. https://books.google.com/books?id=JgwAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA484&lpg=PA484#v=onepage&q=conduit&f=false
But sex it up with "green" PR and you've got somebody a nice income for as long as they can keep the hype train going.You still haven't said why it won't/can't work.
Am I missing something? Isn't this just a "fancy" way to charge an electric car. What's so special about this? What's the news value in this?
Am I missing something? Isn't this just a "fancy" way to charge an electric car. What's so special about this? What's the news value in this?
The same technical challenges that have existed for 120 years? This is literally 1890s technology. https://books.google.com/books?id=JgwAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA484&lpg=PA484#v=onepage&q=conduit&f=false
But sex it up with "green" PR and you've got somebody a nice income for as long as they can keep the hype train going.
You still haven't said why it won't/can't work.
Am I missing something? Isn't this just a "fancy" way to charge an electric car. What's so special about this? What's the news value in this?
What's the advantage of in-flight refuelling for fighter planes?
Am I missing something? Isn't this just a "fancy" way to charge an electric car. What's so special about this? What's the news value in this?
One big drawback with electric vehicles is their limited range and recharging time. This is a fundamental usability problem.
Am I missing something? Isn't this just a "fancy" way to charge an electric car. What's so special about this? What's the news value in this?What's the advantage of in-flight refuelling for fighter planes?
Convenience . But the level of convenience in in-flight refuelling and road charging are completely different.
How is it better or environmentally friendly than building more charging stations? They are probably not more cost effective, safer or reliable than charging stations. Why go through the trouble of building miles and miles and charging roads that is going to cost loads of money just for convenience.
Because this is my last post on this theme, let me highlight some of the "minor issues" that are obvious, and that's it:
- Road surface quality: you need perfect roads, not good, not average, perfect, practically flat, or else the trolley will jump out of the rail, ask a subway engineer about it.
- Dirt and oxidation: the rail will have to be made of some kind of unobtanium material to be even moderately resistant to oxidation, but you still have dust and leaves and other dirt, in 2-3 months this will need very expensive maintenance or it will be dead, the moving contacts will push crap into the rail. Oh, did I mention dilatation issues in the summer, this is difficult to segment .
- Average speed: this dragging contact will reduce the maximum speed to 4-60Km/h at best, or else the mechanical stuff will blow away.
- Avoiding obstacles while dragging this shit around, or overpassing ? Not really possible, less one destroys the contact and/or the rail.
Am I missing something? Isn't this just a "fancy" way to charge an electric car. What's so special about this? What's the news value in this?What's the advantage of in-flight refuelling for fighter planes?
Convenience . But the level of convenience in in-flight refuelling and road charging are completely different.
Says who? I bet there's a ton of people out there who's be happy to be recharging during the daily commute, where traffic goes slowly anyway.How is it better or environmentally friendly than building more charging stations? They are probably not more cost effective, safer or reliable than charging stations. Why go through the trouble of building miles and miles and charging roads that is going to cost loads of money just for convenience.Where does money enter into it?
'Convenience' sells, people are willing to pay for it. I bet lots of people would like to steer their car into a special lane and take their hands off the wheel for 20 minutes.
By your reasoning we shouldn't have mobile phones due to the cost of the infrastructure needed.
(or even a power grid at all - what was wrong with candles?)
- Dirt and oxidation: the rail will have to be made of some kind of unobtanium material to be even moderately resistant to oxidation, but you still have dust and leaves and other dirt, in 2-3 months this will need very expensive maintenance or it will be dead, the moving contacts will push crap into the rail. Oh, did I mention dilatation issues in the summer, this is difficult to segment .
- Average speed: this dragging contact will reduce the maximum speed to 4-60Km/h at best, or else the mechanical stuff will blow away.
- Dirt and oxidation: the rail will have to be made of some kind of unobtanium material to be even moderately resistant to oxidation, but you still have dust and leaves and other dirt, in 2-3 months this will need very expensive maintenance or it will be dead, the moving contacts will push crap into the rail. Oh, did I mention dilatation issues in the summer, this is difficult to segment .
- Average speed: this dragging contact will reduce the maximum speed to 4-60Km/h at best, or else the mechanical stuff will blow away.Reading this I very much wonder how electric trains work (either with overhead power, centre or side rails). I think these go faster than 60km/h.