Indiana Will Test a Highway That Can Charge Moving Vehicles. If things works out, “the possibilities are endless.”

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1. This already exists. It’s called an electric train.

2. So people will drive around in order to charge? That’ll cause lots of traffic.

3. Already happening in Mi. 

   https://www.michigan.gov/mdot/travel/mobility/initiatives/wireless-charging-roadway

   But more testing is good

4. You may have wondered why a phone takes longer to charge wirelessly than charging with a wire. Turns out that quite a bit of the energy is lost in wireless charging.

   Scale that up to an electric car and you’re talking about a huge amount of wasted electricity.

   Also digging up the road to bury copper coils in it is not simple, cheap or easy.

   Fortunately an alternative technology has been around for nearly 100 years:- usually seen on trams and trolley buses, overhead cables would be great for charging lorries while traveling down motorways

5. Or we could invest in and build public transportation instead of spending more money on car centric infrastructure.

6. Very one sided article, talks about all the potential benefits but doesn’t ever mention that charging wirelessly is half as efficient as charging by wire which means you need twice as much energy to drive a mile. This is just another way to keep fossil fuels winning, if cars won’t burn them directly we’ll make sure they take so much power to run that the city can’t shut down our dirty power plants or risk massive blackouts.

7. Build trains

8. This is the worst idea imaginable