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To: gg cox who wrote (137128)	12/14/2017 2:38:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 217588

Thousands of dollars. No thanks. I'll just place 1 $35 unit on the shed floor and glue another under the car. Hey presto an inductive charger for no hassle recharging without cables. I know military grade hammers cost $1000 and a high spec screwdriver would be $2000 but regular people do things cheaper and better. We're just talking a coil on the ground and one on the car. Precision parking is no problem. Cars can already do parallel parking without the "help" of a primate who will damage the car and adjacent ones. There's a slight loss of efficiency compared with a cable but 20c is not much cost for convenience. With 7SSS stations for instant* 100kg battery swaps life will be simple, fast and cheap. Carting half a ton of expensive batteries around will be stone age. Mqurice * while 7 seconds is not quite instant it's near enough for government work and beats half an hour for a part recharge. Half an hour stopped at a charger is a serious cost. Heck, even a parking spot for that long is real money. And that's assuming no queues at the half hour sites which there would have to be to make such a high capital cost system economic. It's uneconomic to leave an expensive system unused for most of the time.