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cheerlessbog on May 6, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Can electric cars on the highway emulate plane-to-...

This was done as you probably know [1] but it's not clear that the road surface is a good place for solar panels. They get dirty and damaged. It's certainly orthogonal to charging vehicles on the road, given we know how to transmit power already.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...

cheerlessbog on May 6, 2020 | [–]

Indeed [2]

BTW when searching on Google it is quite obnoxious that it doesn't navigate to the actual URL but instead prefixes it with Google..

[2] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/first-s...

umvi on May 6, 2020 | [–]

Are you saying charge vehicles on the road using i.e. inductors underneath the road?

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