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Post by Phoebe on Apr 4, 2014 9:12:49 GMT 11
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Post by Jim Hare on Apr 4, 2014 10:37:40 GMT 11
Yeah, these have been talked about for the last few years, pretty cool! You would think that wireless charging would inherently be dangerous but guessing they would have thought of all that! I mean it's bad enough having all that voltage within insulated cables much less open air.
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Post by duncan on Apr 4, 2014 12:59:45 GMT 11
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Post by gabzimiev on Apr 4, 2014 13:11:22 GMT 11
inductive charging wastes electricity but you can buy it as a retrofit for the LEAF right now www.pluglesspower.com/
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Post by eburbsleaf on Apr 4, 2014 15:50:46 GMT 11
This was discussed at the melbourne Ev event that we met up at.
There are two kinds of induction - the early one will fry your cat if it happens to get to comfy in the wrong spot - the newer type cannot harm anything in between the car and charger.
I can't remember the induction types (it's Friday afternoon!) but other than the loss of energy in induction the other is standards - the charger works best with less distance and so the car needs to handshake with the charger and extend itself to reduce the distance.
While induction has been demo'd on the leaf by Nissan I think it'll be some time before we see any sort of induction standard - so if you take the plunge. Then you may end up with limited charging options when the VHS/beta war is won in induction charging ...
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Post by ravolt on Apr 6, 2014 18:58:09 GMT 11
There are several high powered inductive charging methods in the pipeline, this New Zealand one already on trial I believe working with bet err than 90% efficiency. I think it was Seimens who were looking at flash charging a bus 20km within 15 seconds by overhead contacts. Either method means clean public transport and possible the ability to move a way from light rail. There is progress in the i nductive energy draw from the road while travelling too, This would allow for battery use for highway to home only.
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