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Wireless Technology Could Allow Electric Cars To Charge On The Move

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Huffington Post UK   First Posted: 04/08/11 16:47 BST Updated: 04/10/11 11:12 BST

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Clunky cables and inconvenient charge points could become a thing of the past, according to an East Midlands firm trialling wireless electric cars. The company suggests that the act of charging itself could disappear entirely if their induction technology was implanted along Britain's roads, allowing electric cars to charge on the move.



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Clunky cables and inconvenient charge points could become a thing of the past, according to an East Midlands firm trialling wireless electric cars. The company suggests that the act of charging itself...
Clunky cables and inconvenient charge points could become a thing of the past, according to an East Midlands firm trialling wireless electric cars. The company suggests that the act of charging itself...
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siyathomas88
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09:11 AM on 08/23/2011
I think this is a really very nice idea, electric cars are the future of the Automotive sector.. In this way there will be less oil consumption and we can save some of it for the next generation.
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Talk2PassiveActionVital
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06:21 PM on 08/19/2011
One of the most serious problems with wireless power-beaming, as with cell phone and home-based wireless phone and router systems is they all emit radiation that has been documented to disrupt human/animal cellular functionality.

http://www.naturalnews.com/032480_cell_phones_human_health.html

http://www.realdemocracynow.net/0-24145-fcc-hiding-the-truth-about-risk-of-cell-phones-radiation-levels.html

I've re-installed wired telephones and am wiring my previously wireless internet router to my computers through an ethernet network. I've had enough of my family being made wireless technology experiment guinea pigs in some faceless corporate consortium's massive profit-making scheme.
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QDP
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09:45 PM on 08/05/2011
What people just do NOT understand is where the Induction technology POWER comes from. Right now the US grid is using @ 50% coal fired plants to supply the grid with electricity. So just think of each other electric-induced car with a giant, coal-fired smokestack on its roof.

We need to change the criteria of cheap energy Peak Oil rapidly approaching our economic market conditions. we need to conserve, recycle and apply our initiatives towards incentives which make sense.
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ononymous
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12:11 AM on 08/15/2011
Without electric cars, even if coal plants were changed for something cleaner, there would be millions of cars out on the street every day burning gas. By switching now to electric we'll be able to decrease oil consumption, lessen smog around cities, and put the ball in the government's court (or voter's) to take initiative and invest in cleaner energy sources. For now a coal plant could be powering these cars, but that could change rapidly if we had a Congress that was willing to invest in a cleaner grid.
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RoboRon
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12:35 PM on 08/05/2011
The big oil companies simple won't let us use electric cars until they can find a way to monopolise them and keep us dependant.
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Steve Lane
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12:35 PM on 08/05/2011
The whole road network need not have the induction system installed but they could be placed under street parking bays and car parks, at motorway service station car parks at home and some selected urban roads.
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09:47 PM on 08/05/2011
Do you have any idea of the costs, the energy and effort your suggestion encompasses on a national level?

Just stop the driving, duh!
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Steve Lane
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01:01 AM on 08/06/2011
Not cheap for sure but with your attitude we would have had no roads no rail no gasoline infrastructure no ..........
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writeangle
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11:00 AM on 08/05/2011
Just how much would installing induction technology over UK roads cost? Would it be any cheaper than Top Gear's idea of copying dodgem cars and installing chicken wire above the roads which means no battery is required? Battery vehicles can only ever be a partial answer. How will battery power work for articulated lorries with their power requirements. The real answer is hydrogen power especially if the UK will be forced into high renewable energy targets. This will require energy storage which could be achieved by electrolysis of water and storing hydrogen underground. Hydrogen allows unlimited range and large power for heavy vehicles.
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radconrat
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02:37 AM on 09/01/2011
infrastructure. How do you propose to generate the hydrogen required to power all of those vehicle? Where do you propose to fuel the vehicles?

Hydrogen is a great fuel source, readily available, and clean burning. Generating the power to create hydrogen by electrolysis is not readily available or clean burning.
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waldopepper
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04:30 AM on 08/05/2011
Wait until they find out what all this wireless transmission of power is doing to the human body - when a body is in the path of this transmission. But by then it will be too late as the industry will already be established, and there will be too much money to budge it. Just as is the case is with cell phones.
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mongpong
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03:22 PM on 08/05/2011
A tad presumptious without facts for either side of the argument.
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waldopepper
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07:53 AM on 08/06/2011
Presumptuous really? I don't think so. That is the way technology works. People develop something wonderful - then the bugs or the kinks get worked out in the field on an unsuspecting public. If you want another example - compact fluorescent light bulbs spring to mind. The world is fairly rushing to adopt that technology for their supposedly green properties - but oh wait! Some people are "reacting" to the devices...

http://www.renewableenergygeek.ca/energy-efficiency/energy-saving-light-bulbs-dangerous-to-health-and-environment-part-1/

The pattern is extremely predictable.
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srooge
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01:59 AM on 08/05/2011
It should not be to hard Car and Energy industry to destroy this idea.
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apeweek
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07:38 PM on 08/04/2011
Not sure what it would take to bring wired roads to fruition, but such a system could also greatly increase long-term battery lifetimes, as EV batteries would cycle far more gradually if outside power were made available while driving.
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