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bad_haircut72 3 hours ago

surely its possible to invent a "plug in road" system, then cars could charge (at least on highways etc) even when driving. I had this thought ages back when EVs first came out, to tackle the problem of long charge times when doing cross country road trips.

unfitted2545 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

We could call it: Train!

gerdesj 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You could run a line overhead on pylons and put a pick up on a pole on the cars.

A smaller version of these things: https://sandtoft.org/wp/

rswail 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You could combine the best of dodgem cars with drone nets by encasing all the highways in electrified wiring.

Some people drive as if they're in dodgem cars as it is.

toasty228 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

On today's episode of "HNer's totally realistic and not deluded idea"...

bad_haircut72 3 hours ago | parent [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trolleybus_systems_in_...

It already exists and works so, not that crazy

organsnyder an hour ago | parent [-]

It's much more difficult when the ownership of the vehicles isn't centralized.

squigz 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I imagine this would make road repair even more common, intensive, and disruptive than it already is?