Posted on 12/19/2023 3:51:53 PM PST by Libloather
A top Tesla executive has revealed the company is working on wireless charging for its cars during an appearance on Jay Leno's Garage.
While introducing the talk show host to Tesla's new Cybertruck, chief designer Franz von Holzhausen claimed the company was developing charging pads - similar to the technology used to wirelessly charge smartphones.
'We're working on inductive charging - you don't even need to plug something in at that point,' said von Holzhausen. 'Just pull into your garage and drive over the pad and you're charging.'
While wireless car charging is expected to improve convenience for traditional owners, it is also considered important for the rollout of automated taxis, where self-driving cars would ferry around passengers without supervision.
In that scenario, there would be no need for a human or a robot to pick up the charging cable and insert it into the car.
In March, in a slide during a presentation to investors, Tesla showed a mocked-up image of a black pad underneath the rear part of a Tesla parked inside a garage. A black pad is connected by a wire to a unit mounted on the garage wall.
Von Holzhausen described a similar method during his appearance on Leno's show.
In July, Tesla spent $76 million on Wiferion, a German wireless charging startup known for inductive charging for fork lift trucks, among other vehicles.
Another clue as to the what a charging pad might look like - and how it works - can be seen in a video by a company called WiTricity, a company which Wiferion singed a 'global licensing agreement' with in 2022.
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What is the efficiency of wireless charging. maybe for a cell phone. Sure is convenient but efficient?
Nicola Tesla proved that you can broadcast electricity.
Legacy invention?
Been working on toothbrushes for decades.
Will Mr. Nicholas Tesla please pick up the white courtesy phone...
They must think everyone owns a house, or has a garage to park their car in.
I am not in favor of roadbed EV charging .....
In the days of Jules Verne and the building of the Eifel Tower and electrification everywhere, there were theories that the emanations from electric lines could affect brains and bodies of people.
When People Magazine ran a story about affects of living close to high tension power lines they had a picture of a man holding a fluorescent light tube over his head and it getting illuminated by the power lines many feet above him.
And we all have read about mysterious Russian microwave and other energy sent into US embassies to cause serious mental and physical health problems.
“The Moscow Signal was a reported microwave transmission varying between 2.5 and 4 gigahertz, directed at the Embassy of the United States, Moscow from 1953 to 1976, resulting in an international incident.”
“According to the documents, the U.S. discovered that the Soviets had begun directing microwave radiation at the U.S. embassy in 1953.”
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later and worse....
Mysterious brain injuries sustained by U.S. diplomats and CIA officers serving overseas in Cuba, China, and Russia were likely caused by directed, pulsed radio frequency energy, according to a study conducted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/05/us-diplomats-havana-syndrome-cuba-china-russia-radio-frequency/
Just don’t get in the way when it decides to turn on.
What could possibly go wrong ?
I’m sure the amount of electric in the air will be very healthy for all who are near it.
I dunno... that sounds kind of dangerous at what I would think is a higher amount of voltage?
Unless by “wireless” they’re thinking of something like an induction mat under the car?
Make sure fluffy doesn’t pee on the pad.
“What is the efficiency of wireless charging.”
About the same as Level 2 wired charging.
What do YOU think could possibly go wrong?
EV owners can simply park in the garage and cars will charge automatically
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EV owners can simply park in the garage and cars will catch fire automatically
“I’m sure the amount of electric in the air will be very healthy for all who are near it.”
No “electric” in air.
and then it’s a never ending drain on your wallet , how much stealing will happen
Bathing in electromagnetic waves is very good for your health.
Quiet
“EV owners can simply park in the garage and cars will catch fire automatically”
That is exactly what Tesla found out.
Too many objects became “receivers”
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