In China they've been experimenting with Super Capacitor buses. They charge at bus stops and only have a range of 5 miles or something when "charged", but they charge in about 30 secs.
It would be relatively achievable to make I inductive sections of road 30sec to 60 secs long on Motorways and main roads to charge super capacitor equipped cars every 5-10-15 miles (like just before every exit would be smart).
Overhead wires is doable, but would have load limitations. The way it's done with that truck using a pantograph is just silly. One wrong move, or swerve or anything and it's short circuit (at high voltage) or off the wire, or hook up and tear the wire down. Not very clever IMHO.
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Marty
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Current:
2001 Audi S8 - Brilliant Black with Black interior, C5 RS6 rims (whenever I actually put them on...), Solar Sunroof, Tinted side and rear glass, RNS-D, Grom, Bose, clunky old phone in arm rest!
2002 Audi S8 - Project
Replacement head coming arrived  thanks to MJ
Silver with Black interior. All features as the '01, with the 'S' mode auto shifter. Dodgey rear tint (need to find a way to get rid of that).
Family:
2009 Volvo XC90 V8 R Design - has a louder more obnoxious exhaust than the S8, sounds great! Love this thing - Q7 was double the price, and certainly not double the car!
Sold:
1997 Audi A4 - Hamilton's Club Sport, Achat Grey (will miss the old girl)
Last edited by 27litres; 8th November 2019 at 10:03 PM.
Reason: Tare = mass Tear = rip!
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