Americans will literally do anything to not build trains
this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2023
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I would love to have both. Especially trains! The trains here are so bad though. They cost more than flying and are such a hassle to deal with. The train stations are sometimes far away from the city in some cases too. So you need a ride from the station.
I would support building that out if it was offered.
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EEVBlog, Dave, where you at? We need a debunking video. This smells like solar freakin' roadways.
I thought the same thing!
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Why occasionally plug in when you can lose roughly 50% efficiency and not. Such a boondoggle.
The point would not be to never plug in, but instead extend the drive time of an EV by using certain roads.
If on a full charge you get 250miles, but if you take a slightly alternative route and get 500 miles, you’re going to have much less resistance to EVs in any community that would be likely to use these roads.
You missed the 50% loss. Wasted energy. Means you have more infrastructure delivering electricity that isn't utilized. Means you have more production that isn't utilized.
And batteries already have a loss of up to 20% during charge from heating.
Sounds like the next step is to power it using renewables so that we reduce that inefficiency as low as possible
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You’re human, I’m human, and almost anyone buying an EV is presumably human (I hope) So I can confidently say this from experience:
In 250 miles of driving, it’s very likely you’re going to need to take a dump, a pee break, or grab a sandwich. If you have a second passenger, even doing so twice or three times.
15 mins for stops isn’t bad at all, and more people need to understand their “quick stops” that feel like 1-3 minutes are actually a lot longer.
More often than not, I’ve found my car is ready to go before I am if I am ordering a coffee or grabbing a fast food item and taking a quick pee break.
Source: owning an EV and doing 6 600mi trips and 2 250mi trips.
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Goddamn we can't even maintain the basic roads we have, much less a much more expensive and complicated one. It'll be obliterated by salt and snow the first winter and never work again.
I can just imagine all the tweakers tearing up the road to get at any copper wiring it might be using.
Financially or electrically?
Yes
There's a lot of details missing here. It sort of makes sense if you are parked on the street, but it says you can also get a charge while driving. How much battery capacity can you realistically expect to get driving down this stretch of road? Like within the limitations of physics. Maybe if the highway system had this installed but it would be outrageously expensive to replace it all. I also have major doubts that a universal standard would be agreed upon by all manufacturers and municipalities.
Money would be better spent installing more frequent charging stations, which I understand is already the plan.
Now when will the capitalism kick in and if you don't pay your monthly sub you don't get road charging
Why would you expect something like that to be free or even one-time payment?
Electricity definitely cost money even when the city or state pay for the infrastructure, which is really unlikely.
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That sounds like it would be very inefficient and produce massive amounts of RFI.
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Kinda like F-Zero?
Charging keeps getting presented as a major hassle but it really really isn't. Trickle charge overnight is more than plenty for a day of driving.
This is America son, I can drive 11 hours a day and still be in the same state.
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You know what other form of transportation wirelessly recieves power? Trains.
Wirelessly?
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Anyone else getting FZero vibes?
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