Did you ever think about how expensive that would be to implement and maintain on a country-wide basis? And you would still need to greatly enhance the generation capacity that would feed the roads. A reduced capacity in-car battery would only be practical after the road rebuilding program was well underway.
How long are today's roads left to deteriorate before they get a quick skim and resurface only to be dug up within a year or two to get to the rotting pipes below the road?
A complete non-starter (pun intended) in the Northeast.
They are going to need to figure out Tesla's (the man's) secret sauce for his self claimed ability to transmit power wirelessly. But smart people who have looked into it have so far found no "there" there.
only to be dug up within a year or two to get to the rotting pipes below the road?
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Reminds me of Edison’s efforts to electrify things using DC.
He buried big buss bars, which had to be sized to match the loads. Did not work well.
His competitor, AC (as we know) solved all those problems.