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by warrenm 983 days ago
>Vehicles should be fully autonomous. They should not need to drag their fuel around but rather have electricity supplied wirelessly.

Wireless electricity?

Been reading some of those nutty Tesla books again?

He was brilliant .. but not everything he wrote is feasible/smart :)

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It's transmitted a very short distance.

https://electreon.com/

And that is incredibly inefficient

Qi charging for smartphones is not especially efficient (handy - and the inefficiencies don't much matter on such a small scale, but it's still not that great)

Doing it for something rolling down the highway at 70 mph is pretty much there to lure VC money