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Indiana to develop "In-Pavement Charging Solution" for EVs
Posted on 6/27/22 at 9:04 am
Posted on 6/27/22 at 9:04 am
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In July 2021, the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) announced its partnership with Purdue University to develop the “world’s first” highway segment made of contactless wireless-charging concrete pavement. The project aims to use magnetizable concrete to enable EVs to charge as they drive over the pavement.
“When [road users] are looking at electric vehicles vs. non-electric, a big question is how am I going to charge this vehicle and how long will it stay charged,” INDOT Strategic Communications Director Mallory Duncan told Roads & Bridges. “As the world develops and moves toward that electric vehicle, we need to have a solution—and this is one of those solutions.”
RoadsBridges In-Pavement Charging
Not sure how they are going to make them efficient enough to make it worth the cost.
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Posted on 6/27/22 at 9:05 am to Hu_Flung_Pu
Sounds cheap.
Posted on 6/27/22 at 9:07 am to Hu_Flung_Pu
Big Blue was my jam.
This post was edited on 6/27/22 at 9:08 am
Posted on 6/27/22 at 9:07 am to Hu_Flung_Pu
It's not a new idea. There are several US companies working on it as well. It'll be a while before they can overcome the cost and efficiency loss. But it's definitely technology worth pursuing.
Posted on 6/27/22 at 9:08 am to Hu_Flung_Pu
No way this can be cheap and how will it survive the winters (for northern states?)
Posted on 6/27/22 at 9:09 am to Hu_Flung_Pu
Sounds like an outrageous waste of taxpayer money for something that will never work
Posted on 6/27/22 at 9:09 am to Hu_Flung_Pu
I want to say Sweden started doing this a few years back. I'd be curious to hear how it's worked out for them.
Posted on 6/27/22 at 9:10 am to BluegrassBelle
I think China has already done a road
Posted on 6/27/22 at 9:33 am to Hu_Flung_Pu
Didn’t Tesla figure this out a long time ago?
Posted on 6/27/22 at 9:51 am to Hu_Flung_Pu
Make a road system that people rely on to actually make their vehicles run. Then, turn over maintenance of said road network to the same bunch of useless, thieving bastards who currently refuse to use the money we send them to actually maintain the damn roads! What could go wrong?
Of course, they'd shortly come begging for even more money for upkeep, leading to another tax hike somewhere.
Posted on 6/27/22 at 9:54 am to Hu_Flung_Pu
Charging shouldn't be free anywhere.
Posted on 6/27/22 at 9:55 am to Hu_Flung_Pu
Should work great in New Orleans. We've already figured out how to feed plants in the middle of the road, why not cars?
This post was edited on 6/27/22 at 9:56 am
Posted on 6/27/22 at 9:59 am to Hu_Flung_Pu
If you step on in when it's raining....do you get fried?
Posted on 6/27/22 at 10:02 am to tadman
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Should work great in New Orleans. We've already figured out how to feed plants in the middle of the road, why not cars?
This is what I was referring to with my comment but it apparently was "lost in translation." We have cities across the US that struggle to repair their current roads yest we are going to use this system to charge EVs.
Posted on 6/27/22 at 10:05 am to LegendInMyMind
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Make a road system that people rely on to actually make their vehicles run. Then, turn over maintenance of said road network to the same bunch of useless, thieving bastards who currently refuse to use the money we send them to actually maintain the damn roads! What could go wrong?
I think they believe the people that work these roads are model employees
Posted on 6/27/22 at 10:15 am to UGATiger26
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Big Blue was my jam.
Mute City
Posted on 6/27/22 at 10:20 am to bad93ex
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No way this can be cheap and how will it survive the winters (for northern states?)
The bigger problem would be the mid-western states where you get a lot of freeze-thaw cycles. It's great for making fertile soil, not so much for roadways.
Posted on 6/27/22 at 10:26 am to Hu_Flung_Pu
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Not sure how they are going to make them efficient enough to make it worth the cost.
Imagine driving through the state without taking away your range. If you did interstates with this technology, you could take away a lot of the electric issues with travel. The next issue will be doing maintenance on the road. Someone goes in and demos an area without calling in locates and destroys the grid and shite hits the fan.
There is a town in Michigan that uses radiant heat elements under all their sidewalks and roads to keep snow off the roads. It was crazy expensive to start but they have found it to save them money over time due to not having to salt roads and liabilities.
Posted on 6/27/22 at 10:28 am to Hu_Flung_Pu
We can't even fix pot holes yet we want to install this?
Posted on 6/27/22 at 10:30 am to Warfarer
Sounds good in a presentation but how are the charging pads going to be powered? Are they gonna erect several acres of solar panels to provide the actual electricity necessary to charge the TVs? Maybe a wind farm of about 500 acres would do?
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