Well we all know it wont be achieved. The grid is already falling over with the weight of unreliables and it will take at least 30 years to roll out nukes once the public realises there is no alternative - and that will take another decade probably.
So 2060 before we have a grid capable of running electric cars.
And it is doubtful that the battery metals will be available then anyway in that quantity.
pump it round the supermarket to keep people warm
Do you remember how much it cost to have a phone installed in the days when most didn't have them?
Installing charging posts in a street could be done for not a lot - assuming they do the same as charging your car in the driveway, and not a extremely high power device. And a tiny amount relative to the cost of a new EV.
If there is space to park a car, there is space for a simple charging point beside it.
No, Scalextric slots in the road. Or large moving lorries full of batteries which you can hitch behind for recharging, while someone else hitches behind you etc. Has the advantage of better aerodynamic efficiency too, if you have a few.
Take the driver out of the equation and things become easier.
You've obviously had a few :-)
and you have a train ...
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And Germany is already beginning to taste the bitter fruits of transitioning to renewables:
TBH on a motorway a self driving car end to end with others is no bad idea, but KV on the road surface is a very *bad* idea.
Definately. RioTinto share price is up from £13 in Feb 2016 to about £60. An EV car has a lot more copper than an IC one.
Was that before privatisation ?
There is a tram service somewhere in the world that gets its power from a slot in the road. Austria ?
Not so crazy:
San Francisco cable cars do. Probably not in the way you meant.
The bikers wouldn't be too keen. I guess you could engineer something switched and/or enclosed and at a lower voltage (not kelvin-volts as you suggest anyway), but it would be difficult.
The main issue would be operating and manning the very large hand controllers.
What happens when it rains?
Indeed. That's not volts. The carman, to get it to move, has to lower his grip pole and clutch the cable carefully so the car moves off gently.
In message snipped-for-privacy@davenoise.co.uk>, at 00:43:38 on Wed, 20 Jan
2021, "Dave Plowman (News)" snipped-for-privacy@davenoise.co.uk> remarked:About three orders of magnitude in the size of the copper cables required.
and when they salt the road to prevent icing!
That was because the GPO had a monopoly. Mrs Thatcher sorted that out for us.
Bill
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