[Libloather]

Electricity must be free out there.

[linMcHlp]

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.

[mikey_hates_everything]

Wow, so at 40 mph, 45 seconds of charging while the EV covers the 0.5 miles of charging roadway. How many kWh can be transferred by induction this way? You’ll have to go back and forth on the same section of road to get anything decent, less what you used going back and forth.

But it will be ready for the 2028 Meth-Olympics! Whatever relevance that has. Awesome job, LA!

[linMcHlp]

And who is going to de-gauss the __________, and the trash trucks?

[Jonty30]

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.

[lurk]

One half of a mile for $20M.
Ten miles = $400M.
More expensive than the Newsom bullet train.

[maddog55]

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.

[norwaypinesavage]

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.

[Steven Tyler]

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

[lowbridge]

“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/

[cgbg]

They never have major earthquakes out there either.

This must be the “sustainable development” they keep talking about....

Lol.

[cyclotic]

I wonder how much diesel fuel and carbon will be expended to build this cute little altar to leftist utopianism?

[Hot Tabasco]

concentrate on a half-mile stretch of road

“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?

[DugwayDuke]

What could possibly go wrong?

[antidemoncrat]

Gee, I kinda remember a few years ago when California couldn’t produce enough electricity so they asked people to avoid charging their EVs during peak usage hours to keep grid from collapsing. I’m sure that will never happen again even when they make all new vehicles sold be EVs.

[Vaduz]

Electric vehicle-charging roadway

Be a good time to invest in dump trucks somebody scores on the body pick-up contracts.

[ridesthemiles]

THE NEXT EARTHQUAKE WILL BE A GAME CHANGER!!!