Detroit is now home to the country’s first chunk of road that can wirelessly charge an electric vehicle (EV), whether it’s parked or moving.

Why it matters: Wireless charging on an electrified roadway could remove one of the biggest hassles of owning an EV: the need to stop and plug in regularly.

  • cordlesslamp@lemmy.today
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    11 months ago

    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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        11 months ago

        It doesn’t have to, but who wants to subsidize people driving unnecessarily large vehicles for recreation?

        I get ~4 miles per kW (and around that mark isn’t unusual for a lot of others) but a Hummer EV is substantially worse at 1.6 miles per kW.