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.

  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    11 months ago

    There’s public transport in large and dense cities. It doesn’t work to move around the country very well. These people that think something that works in a country that’s smaller than an individual state in the US should work fine are “special”.

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      11 months ago

      … but this is Detroit which is a city that can support NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL teams. We’re not taking about the sticks here

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      11 months ago

      Japan is the size of the entire east coast and has high speed interconnected rail.

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        11 months ago

        There’s only about 800 cities to connect in all of Japan.

        There’s about 19,000 in the US.

        You prove my point. Japan is small and easy to get everywhere by rail. The US is not.

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          11 months ago

          Yeah, area wise Japan is about 60% the size of Texas. With Japan having more than twice the GDP. Seems pretty straight forward why infrastructure should be better there. Japan has 4x the populous as well. Makes a lot more motivation to focus on public transport.