Comments on: Wireless, On-Road Electric Car Charging Patent Could be a Game Changer

By: hayden

hayden — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:26:20 +0000

Umm whats wrong with a rewoeked alternator? that charges batteries? Also they could use a solar panel on the roof for passive charging.
Why does everything need to be made so difficult when there are easy solutions to the current problems with electric cars

By: H2P

H2P — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:14:42 +0000

Nice article and quite intriguing. This kind of innovation may be getting closer to reality everyday, however, like the paradoxes that are still inherent between compact car and suv, networked server-client environments, and toy train sets–the sustainability and maintenance costs for the infrastructure to support such an application may not allow on-the-road charging to be relevant. Regional climate and economics may not attract a typical and pragmatic automobile drive to switch to an electric vehicle that may be dependent on a system that may experience unforseen events and outages. Think of your elderly grandmother or mother driving 15 miles outside of downtown, turns off the vehicle, but yet cannot turn it back on later on because there is no charge. Does she push the car onto the road to see if it charges up? Maybe, but then it is an elderly person that you care about and wudn’t want in that kind of situation.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:29:08 +0000

Susan,

Do you know the jurisdiction and patent #? Is there an IAV press release about the patent grant?

Thanks,

Eric

By: Garrett

Garrett — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:42:17 +0000

I personally dont think this is a very valid solution. It is a good idea, but the advancement in batteries and solar energy will make this obsolete very quickly, and the cost of making our roads(think about just the highway system alone) be able to support this would be outrageous. Most of our roads in the USA come through the States, our states are already cutting back severly right now. By the time enough cars are produced to support this, and the road changes are made, there is going to be something far more cost effective.

By: Garrett

Garrett — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:42:00 +0000

By: Shaun

Shaun — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:16:58 +0000

First we need affordable electric cars. The Chevy Volt is expected to retail at $40,000.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:16:00 +0000

First we need affordable electric cars. The Chevy Volt is expected to retail at $40,000.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:16:00 +0000

First we need affordable electric cars. The Chevy Volt is expected to retail at $40,000.

By: hefty

hefty — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:56:27 +0000

thats a good ideal. to help save a lot of power at night, all road lights should be kept very dim, but in proximity to the electric car they reach optimal brightness.

after the car passes, they return to an energy-saving state.

By: hefty

hefty — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:56:00 +0000

thats a good ideal. to help save a lot of power at night, all road lights should be kept very dim, but in proximity to the electric car they reach optimal brightness.

after the car passes, they return to an energy-saving state.