Posted on 12/01/2024 12:44:10 AM PST by Libloather
California is about to become home to the nation’s second electric vehicle-charging roadway — with construction due to be completed ahead of the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.
The multimillion dollar UCLA project, funded with state grant moneys, will concentrate on a half-mile stretch of road in Westwood, according to the Los Angeles Times.
And it will come as the university prepares to host the Olympic Village — where all of the competing athletes stay during the games.
“A wireless inductive option is a game changer,” Clinton Bench, director of the UCLA Fleet and Transit, told the Times.
“When a vehicle is driving over [a charger], the vehicle can collect charge while it’s moving.”
Close to $20 million in grant money will be used to upgrade UCLA‘s bus fleet, replacing gas-powered vehicles with electric buses.
The EV-charging roadway will eliminate the need to connect any of the buses to electric charging coils.
Any electric vehicle that utilizes the roadway will be able to pick up a charge, thanks to several underground charging stations.
The buses would pick up charge while driving throughout the day or when parked at a stationary wireless charger.
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Brought to you, by the same people who panic at the sight/thought of above-ground high-voltage power lines.
Above ground: bad
Below ground: good
Never mind the effect of the large-size magnetic field on the metal carried by, carried within, people and several types of devices.
But it will be ready for the 2028 Meth-Olympics! Whatever relevance that has. Awesome job, LA!
And who is going to de-gauss the __________, and the trash trucks?
Costs $30 million and be 1 mile long and nothing will be said about it after it is built, because it will too expensive to build such a system across even just one city.
One half of a mile for $20M.
Ten miles = $400M.
More expensive than the Newsom bullet train.
Oh, they won’t be going anywhere near that fast; this stretch of road will become one long, skinny parking lot.
The entire system isn't constantly on. Individual coils are only activated when the vehicle is directly on top of them. You need a wireless receiver from the company to manage the charging. Current estimates around $3500 for the unit..
You’ll also need an EV that can charge while driving, not that details matter or anything to the pompous left.
A charging highway so you can drive your EV to see the LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ Olympics. I’ll pass and won’t watch it on TV either.
Not much of charge in a 1/2 mile of road unless it’s the 405 where you’d get an hour or two charge to go 1/2 mile.
Another dumb idea by idiots running a failed state.
An inductive charger is SIMPLY an extremely INEFFICIENT transformer. A normal power transformer, like the one on the pole outside most homes, uses special steel laminated cores directly touching the copper wires of the transformer, which is also filled with a special oil. An inductive charger uses nothing but air at a distance measured in feet. This means that only a tiny fraction of the electricity from the road actually goes into the vehicle driving over it. The rest of the electricity is simply lost as heat, adding to global warming.
DemocRats have never seen one of your dollars they didn't want to tax and spend.
What project is completed first?
This road
Or, the high speed rail line
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-03-21/high-speed-rail
“The multimillion dollar UCLA project, funded with state grant moneys”
State grant money? Why can’t they use the federal money already allocated for a project like that?
$7.5 Billion in Government Cash Only Built 8 E.V. Chargers in 2.5 Years
https://reason.com/2024/05/30/7-5-billion-in-government-cash-only-built-8-e-v-chargers-in-2-5-years/
They never have major earthquakes out there either.
This must be the “sustainable development” they keep talking about....
Lol.
The only “development” that is “sustained” is the flow of BS from their mouths.
I don’t think there any EV autos that have wireless charging as a standard feature. From what I can tell, it is all after market tinkering if an EV has the capability.
I wonder how much diesel fuel and carbon will be expended to build this cute little altar to leftist utopianism?
“When a vehicle is driving over [a charger], the vehicle can collect charge while it’s moving.”
At 60 MPH, how much of a charge can be collected in 30 seconds?
What could possibly go wrong?
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