World's first electrified road for charging vehicles opens in Sweden
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#2Wow I always assumed plugin batteries would be the only way to run electric cars, this is great.
Also searching I saw these trucks using overhead electric lines, also in Sweden
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#3It would be cheaper and more easily scalable to fit more charging points in parking spaces at shopping centres, motorway service stations and so on.
Why do we keep on inventing new complicated ways of doing things instead of standardising and exploiting the things that we already know work?
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#4It would be cheaper and more easily scalable to fit more charging points in parking spaces at shopping centres, motorway service stations and so on. Why do we keep on inventing new complicated ways of doing things instead of standardising and exploiting the things that we already know work?
Electrified rails on trains have been around much longer than parking stations. Plus batteries are the biggest problem (and most expensive) part of ecars, so this is a good idea to try out.
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#5It would be cheaper and more easily scalable to fit more charging points in parking spaces at shopping centres, motorway service stations and so on. Why do we keep on inventing new complicated ways of doing things instead of standardising and exploiting the things that we already know work?
Batteries are expensive and heavy. Plus range anxiety.
If this allows for cars to have a 50 mile battery range while still being able to travel unlimited miles on highways, it would be a huge win.
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#6I can’t help but be amused at the way people fear cell phone towers but love wireless charging devices
Re: World's first electrified road for charging vehicles opens in Sweden
#7It would be cheaper and more easily scalable to fit more charging points in parking spaces at shopping centres, motorway service stations and so on. Why do we keep on inventing new complicated ways of doing things instead of standardising and exploiting the things that we already know work?
Batteries are expensive and heavy. Plus range anxiety. If this allows for cars to have a 50 mile battery range while still being able to travel unlimited miles on highways, it would be a huge win.
Exactly. The article doesn't expand on this point but this is capable of charging multiple vehicles in motion. More charging points at stations, shopping centers, etc would still require people to stop and wait.
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#8I can’t help but be amused at the way people fear cell phone towers but love wireless charging devices
The difference is that the frequencies required for wireless charging are typically much lower if the coupling is magnetic.
The 'wireless' form in the article is more akin to what a trolleybus would use and likely would not survive for long in the presence of either a large amount of traffic (more demand than the rail could handle, imagine a traffic jam) or arcing as well as danger to the public (think subway third rail).
I do not think this concept will survive in the long term.
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#9It would be cheaper and more easily scalable to fit more charging points in parking spaces at shopping centres, motorway service stations and so on. Why do we keep on inventing new complicated ways of doing things instead of standardising and exploiting the things that we already know work?
Electrified rails on trains have been around much longer than parking stations. Plus batteries are the biggest problem (and most expensive) part of ecars, so this is a good idea to try out.
But those rails are on otherwise off-limit tracks and 'third rail' solutions are notoriously dangerous. This system has the two rails closely spaced side-by-side so it may be a bit safer but in the presence of moisture it could be dangerous too.
It's basically a scaled up version of a slot car track.
Re: World's first electrified road for charging vehicles opens in Sweden
#10I can’t help but be amused at the way people fear cell phone towers but love wireless charging devices
This one isn't wireless; there's an arm descending from the vehicle.