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To: gg cox who wrote (132046)3/21/2017 11:09:45 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 217540
 
Tesla better get with the programme or go bust. Supercharger plug in parking lots are not the way to go. Tesla [the man] invented wireless energy propagation 100 years ago. It's not new. What's new is the management electronics and software that makes it doable, as well the economic and technological prospects for electric cars.

Small 7SSS batteries + Halo is the way to go. You made up imaginary problems. There's no need to remove teratons of concrete etc.

Carting teratons of batteries around, stopping for half an hour at a time is hideously inefficient and inconvenient, even if those silly robots were installed. It's easier and cheaper to just install a pad on the ground than an aerobatic robot to top up 7SSS batteries at convenient points such as at home, or highly-used parking spots at supermarkets.

Halo plus 7SSS would future proof cars against the advent of Uberized autopilot cars which will be very high mileage with no time for hanging around for a recharge.

Where Qualcomm does go wrong is with the idea of continuous recharging coils in roads. They would be vastly underused as only 1 coil in 20 would be in use at any instant, even if cars travel only 1 metre apart, which they wouldn't do as there aren't that many cars needed.

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