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Join Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield, Greg Fordyce, Steven Glaser and Mike Whelan as they discuss the week's EV News. Shownotes at www.evcast.com This show is sponsored by the folks at www.evcarco.com
Aptera “Town Hall meeting” - http://www.aptera.com/plugin.php
The Volt makes it to SXSW driven by Leo Laporte. (twitter from Leo)
Why is the iMiev, iON and C-Zero so widely priced when it’s the same car?
Incestuous dealings. Nissan may join Renault and Dailmer in cross-maker shares.
GM start work on fuel cell concept testing - aim to produce a fuel cell compact by 2015. What does this mean for the volt?
BYD cuts back on EV plans.
Nissan Leaf to be made in Sunderland, UK. (Third of three factories now prepared for manufacture of Leaf)
Only 7% of US population would buy an EV... according to new report.
Prius runaway case thickens, and gets juicy.
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I have just been reading lately about How Korea is testing an inductive charging system in the roadway of a park and their trolley system is charged while driving over this in-road surface system. I had been thinking (when I saw an inductive charging system that you pulled your car into) that if they could put that system in the highways, Then you would only need enough power in your batteries to get to the highway and then not only would your batteries get charged on the way to work but your range would be infinite! At least as far as that charging highway went. When leaving the highway you would have fully charged batteries and be able to increase your range from the highway!It seems to me that is the direction our science research needs to move. Once again we are not only NOT ahead of the curve, we aren't even aware that there IS a curve! Korea IS! Wake up America!
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Assuming you tackle all the technical challenges in inductive roadway charging, the biggest problem is that you will be charging the cars at the wrong time of the day. Electric cars need to be recharged mainly at night, when there is spare capacity, if electric cars are to become widespread and main stream. There simply isn't enough spare electricity generation capacity in most areas to support large numbers of electric cars being charged during the day. So a large scale roadway inductive charging scheme will lead not only to digging up roads, but building more power plants to supply electricity. Better to use existing power plants more effectively, and look at technology such as vehicle-to-grid combined with renewable power sources.
It is one thing to power a single slow speed tram around a park, but the energy to power a highway full of fast moving vehicles will be enormous even if done extremely efficiently.
Greg
Video about the Tesla Roadster motor 1:31.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggoi0OBhVSQ
