Tesla Inductive Charging Pad (wireless) is in development!

[Sirfun]

Most vehicles in apartment parking will get from 5-30 miles per hour from a standard 120v outlet, tho. Like, my Zero gets 17. Most e-bikes get more. You're only going to be limited to 3 in the largest, least efficient vehicles; and that's still adding 13,000 miles a year.

This idea that there's no utility - when most vehicles sit there twelve hours or more at a time - to reversing phantom drain and making the vehicles able to maintain their readiness is a shift in attitudes we need.

-Crissa

Yep, my Pacifica PHEV gets a fillup overnight with our standard 120v outlet. That's about 30 miles. Sure 240v would be way faster, but overnight is enough time to fill it with only standard house plug.

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[KHappe]

Most vehicles in apartment parking will get from 5-30 miles per hour from a standard 120v outlet, tho. Like, my Zero gets 17. Most e-bikes get more. You're only going to be limited to 3 in the largest, least efficient vehicles; and that's still adding 13,000 miles a year.

This idea that there's no utility - when most vehicles sit there twelve hours or more at a time - to reversing phantom drain and making the vehicles able to maintain their readiness is a shift in attitudes we need.

-Crissa

It has been a long time since I've looked at the equations on the fields.
I thought inductive fields fall off at the distance squared. So unless your you real real close to the inductive charging field, you get a lot of loses.

 

[CyberGus]

It has been a long time since I've looked at the equations on the fields.
I thought inductive fields fall off at the distance squared. So unless your you real real close to the inductive charging field, you get a lot of loses.

Wireless charging uses directional phased radio waves, like Dishy McFlatface. It's not just a static magnetic field.

 

[KHappe]

Wireless charging uses directional phased radio waves, like Dishy McFlatface. It's not just a static magnetic field.

Thanks that helps.

 

[JBee]

You wouldn't waste time with 120v lighting?

Wouldn't waste time?

It's the amps that matter, but a 120v would just be more common. I put in 240v, but it's still only carrying a few amps, because of how long the run is.

You can just string more 120v 20a outlets with the same amount of copper and service drop than you can 240v or higher amperage. A 30a service ten spaces down is going to need 6ga wire while that 6ga wire could provide the full 50a to the first parking space.

It gets complicated, expensive, fast.

-Crissa

120V is such a third world problem.

Meanwhile in normalville Australia we have 3phase 400V at home.

 

[PilotPete]

120V is such a third world problem.

Meanwhile in normalville Australia we have 3phase 400V at home.

Yeah, but…

Shall we compare electricity availability, uptime, and infrastructure differences?

And you still drive on the wrong side!

 

[CyberGus]

And you still drive on the wrong side!

Even the moon uses LHD

 

[JBee]

Yeah, but…

Shall we compare electricity availability, uptime, and infrastructure differences?

And you still drive on the wrong side!

Easy win. Our biggest problem is we have to much household solar and not enough storage. CT V2G would help heaps.

We don't have a lack of infrastructure as such, just a lack of people in lots of the country, so obviously nobody brings power there.

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