solar freaking whatever, again...
Looking forward to EEVblog showcasing why this is once again a cash grab that has zero chance to actually work.
Building the first highway segment in the U.S. that can charge electric vehicles
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#12Debunked by EEVBlog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGwHRImfE4E&t=0
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#13It never ceases to amaze me the lengths we will go to overcomplicate transportation just so everyone has to continue to buy and maintain their own vehicle.
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#14solar freaking whatever, again...
Looking forward to EEVblog showcasing why this is once again a cash grab that has zero chance to actually work.
He already did, though that was not a highway segment but a local road. Same lossy tech though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGwHRImfE4E&t=0
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#15This might be a good match to hills, which are short areas of need.
Trucks lose an extreme amount of energy hauling heavy trailers up steep inclines.
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#16This is a ~400 meters segment; the method is quite lossy due to wireless power transmission and also encumbered with a pending patent. I also suspect that road maintenance will be much more expensive, once there are smarts inside. A time-proven alternative is to install trolleys on such trucks and put overhead wires, similar to trolleybuses ([1]) or electric trains. It's known to scale to thousand kilometers, easy to…
Overhead wires on freeways have hight issues when trying to power both cars and allow room for oversized loads. It works for trolleys because you have a full sized buss’s height plus the hight of the pickup bar which allows a lot of room below. Wireless also has quite a lot going for it from a safety, noise, and maintenance perspectives. If they’re deep enough you could theoretically have a 50+ year lifespan while th…
@#1 no reason you can't put a raised collector on the roof of a truck
@#2 yeah nice dream. Ever seen a highway under refurbishment? "Deep enough" to survive those machines means you waste even more energy.
Total fantasy this.
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#17solar freaking whatever, again...
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
That doesn't get VC money and crazy people screaming about it. Boston/Cambridge is full of those and it's a pleasure to be on them but there's no crazy CEO trying to sell it so no one bothers to pay attention to them.
Especially with all of the problems they've been having over the last couple of years, I had to double-take when I saw you describe riding the MBTA as "a pleasure"
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#19What a waste of money. Fuck highways. I want housing. This country is stuck in the 1950s
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