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.

  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Yes, so the trains make sense in certain areas. The US has a similar problem, with the majority of the population in a few specific areas which are already served well by trains. But you then have extremely sparse population spread out through the rest of the country. Trains just don’t work there.

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      1 year ago

      US cities are definitively not already served well by trains. Trains are prohibitively expensive, literally falling apart and very rare, even in larger population centers in the US.

      Trains would work very well in this country as they work in literally every country that invests in transportation infrastructure.

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      1 year ago

      You can’t even get high speed rail between LA and San Fransisco (yet). US cities in dense areas are not well served by trains.