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Tesla CONFIRMS it is working on wireless charging - meaning EV owners can simply park in the garage and cars will charge automatically
Daily Mail ^ | 12/19/23 | Neirin Gray

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: automotive; charge; ev; garage; tesla
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To: Libloather

They plan on doing a stretch of highway that will charge the car as you drive.


21 posted on 12/19/2023 4:23:23 PM PST by roving
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To: TexasGator

https://debugger.medium.com/wireless-charging-is-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen-48afdde70ed9


Well here is someone who disagrees.

efficiency of led bulbs have been preached also. But every good long term led bulb I examine has a huge heat sink and heat dissipation system when it is of size.

The ones without the head sink don’t last long but they are efficient for the moment.

So, cite your source, I don’t believe you.


22 posted on 12/19/2023 4:23:52 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

“Well here is someone who disagrees.”

That is for phones, not EV’s.

Live and learn.

https://witricity.com/newsroom/blog/what-is-efficiency-how-do-you-measure-it-and-why-should-you-care/

“efficiency of led bulbs have been preached also. But every good long term led bulb I examine has a huge heat sink and heat dissipation system when it is of size.”

ROTFLMAO!


23 posted on 12/19/2023 4:28:00 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: NorthMountain
What do YOU think could possibly go wrong?

I don’t think anyone with a pacemaker for instances, should be around when someone is charging their car

25 posted on 12/19/2023 5:08:14 PM PST by 11th_VA (<>< Good News: Barbarians at not at the gate; Bad News: They’re in the city)
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To: 11th_VA

Especially when laying in a pool of salty water from melting snow off cars in states like NY.


26 posted on 12/19/2023 5:14:58 PM PST by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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To: sonova

Make the pad waterproof and put it on the driveway, away from the house.


27 posted on 12/19/2023 5:21:19 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Inefficient at high power. Transformer losses. And here you will have a very inefficient design as it is not all contained in one well designed package.


28 posted on 12/19/2023 5:35:27 PM PST by Revel
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To: Libloather

Is that before or after the car burns up in the garage?


29 posted on 12/19/2023 5:54:24 PM PST by CurlyDave
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To: PeterPrinciple

Inductive charging involves large magnets. Anyone in range with a pace maker is at risk.

Check the fine print on your inductive stove — certain pacemakers will ....... “not” if within arm’s reach.

Of course, few will care. But, when their cell phones and other devices that charge magnetically suddenly catch fire — oh, my!


30 posted on 12/19/2023 6:05:34 PM PST by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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To: Right Brigade

31 posted on 12/19/2023 6:52:49 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: 11th_VA

Interesting. I hadn’t thought of a pacemaker.

I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t want any magnetic media anywhere near it.


32 posted on 12/19/2023 6:54:55 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Libloather

GM offered this on the first GM EV more than 2 decades ago. The technology isn’t new, at all. One problem is that it’s not very efficient.


33 posted on 12/19/2023 7:22:38 PM PST by norwaypinesavage (The power of the press is not in what it includes, rather, it's in that which is omitted.)
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To: Libloather

If you can charge up while parked in front of somebody else’s house and you got something good going.


34 posted on 12/19/2023 7:28:44 PM PST by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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To: Libloather

And the democRATS will now build much more electricity generation. /ssss.

The democRATS want to limit EVERYTHING they possibly can, except for themselves of course. Between the thousands of years of oil and natural gas under our feet, we could also build next generation nuclear plants and have very, very inexpensive and abundant energy. That leads directly to more freedom, and the democRATS despise free people.


35 posted on 12/19/2023 7:51:56 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Can’t see how it is wireless if there’s a wire from the pad to a plug in the garage. Of course, that means you’d have to make it home every night. What’s that going to do to your home insurance premiums? What about the extra pull on the power grid?


36 posted on 12/19/2023 7:56:33 PM PST by bgill
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To: PeterPrinciple

And if it works at the range of a foot, what does it do to other devices/items in the garage?


37 posted on 12/20/2023 12:55:42 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: TexasGator

ROTFLMAO!


Before you LOL off the chair and injure you self:

Read the WHOLE article. There is a comparable efficiency at a VERY PARTICULAR RANGE OF CHARGING, and that is a very LOW range of charging.

They quote 20% to 80% state of charge. Why the range? It is time sensitive. How confident are you going to be with a 20% charge? Of course eyes go to the 80, but there is also a 20.

“Level 2 home charger operates in the range of about 83-94% efficiency grid-to-battery depending on which one you buy.” Now that is quite a loss of efficiency to compare to. THAT IS A HUGE LOSS OF EFFICIENCY TO CONVERT ENERGY.

Now regarding cell phones. No one is going to wait a whole day for efficient charging, It is a lower power consumption and we can trade efficiency for convenience. Add another 5-10% efficiency cost to a EV for convenient/ fast charging, and there are problems and cost factors that get serious.

Now don’t laugh at the LED bulbs. Yes, the old led on the calculators were almost 100% efficiency. That was the selling point, but achieving in application and manufacture is another point. That does not mean all LED’s lights are efficient. Take a look at the higher wattage or long lived bulbs. They have massive heat dissipation systems. HEAT is inefficiency.

The short lived “fashion” when I grew up was “appropriate technology.” It was understood that in certain situation certain technology was a good thing. IF you changed some aspect of the system things changed.

Liberals look at one or two data points of a complex system like climate and think they understand it and can control it.

I am not against EV, they are appropriate for some people and some situations. But note the govt thinks one size fits all and will force you one way or the other. and in their “one size fits all”, THEY MAKE THINGS WORSE.


38 posted on 12/20/2023 7:48:43 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Libloather

The fast charging version can also cook your dinner.

Keep your kids out of the garage as well as all metal objects.


39 posted on 12/20/2023 11:17:56 AM PST by doorgunner69 (When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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To: frank ballenger

Yeah, well.

The liberals that worship EVs and buy the damn things already has brain damage, so who cares?


40 posted on 12/20/2023 11:19:44 AM PST by doorgunner69 (When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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