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Havoc 3 days ago

I thought induction has big losses and heat generation?

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_aavaa_ 3 days ago | parent [-]

It does. And very tight alignment requirements.

But for a premium carmaker the simple solution of “plug in” isn’t good enough when they have to justify the price tag.

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rozab 2 days ago | parent [-]

Working at this scale and price tag, it seems like it would be easier to install a small robot arm in the floor to do it. Or a setup like a 3-axis milling machine, just to align with a port on the bottom and plug it in.

I guess that doesn't have the sexy Nikola Tesla factor.

	▲	atonse 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Right! a robot arm with some sort of magnetic alignment like we have on MagSafe would go pretty far.