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Electric Vehicles

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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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What are some other signs you've noticed that signal things are moving in the right direction?

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[–] photon_echo@slrpnk.net 6 points 17 hours ago (7 children)

Years ago there were few public EV chargers, and even then it was common when I used one that I was the only one there. Today there are many more public EV chargers and and multi-stall chargers, its more rare that I'm the only one charging.

[–] RideAgainstTheLizard@slrpnk.net 8 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

I saw this on Mastodon recently. I love the idea of a company that isn't usually associated with energy coming in and beating big oil to the mark.

[–] photon_echo@slrpnk.net 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

There is a regional chain of grocery stores in my area that have level 2 and 50Kw level 3 chargers. They give you 1 free hour of level 2 charging per day (per location, I later discovered). At 9.6k charge rate, its not a huge savings, but I almost always use it when I grocery shop and its nice to come out to the car with 5% or 8% charged added.

[–] RideAgainstTheLizard@slrpnk.net 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

beautiful I wonder if one day it'll be as simple as parking your car and having it wirelessly charge without even thinking about it

[–] photon_echo@slrpnk.net 3 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

There was a company called Wiferion that was bringing this exact product to market. They were bought by Tesla though and nothing has since come out.

There is another company called Witricity that claims to have a product ready in 2025.

[–] RideAgainstTheLizard@slrpnk.net 1 points 12 hours ago

But still, very cool

[–] RideAgainstTheLizard@slrpnk.net 1 points 12 hours ago

Knowing Tesla they'll just slap some sort of subscription fee on it 🙄

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