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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First highway segment in U.S. wirelessly charges electric heavy-duty truck while driving⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, supplying electricity to fast moving ground vehicles isn’t new, just look at… every high speed rail system ever…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First highway segment in U.S. wirelessly charges electric heavy-duty truck while driving⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this sounds stupid, and I’m worried about the amount of power wasted by induction charging. Anyone who’s wirelessly charged a phone knows it can get quite hot; that’s wasted energy. And Indiana’s generation is still mostly natural gas and coal, so at some point, with enough losses in transmission and charging, you’ll end up with a higher-carbon vehicle than a diesel truck…

  I am not sure what that point is, but the efficiency of charging is an important consideration in my mind.