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mickey100 12-17-2023 07:19 AM

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Originally Posted by BrianL99 (Post 2282682)
It's surprising to me, that Florida seems to be in the forefront for some interesting technology.

This could certainly change the EV dynamic.


Florida toll road will charge electric vehicles as they drive

Hard to believe Florida would be in the forefront of anything.

MandoMan 12-17-2023 08:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Bill14564 (Post 2282694)
Looks like $50M per mile for a ten mile shortcut with a charging system that is no existing EV can use. If Florida builds it, they will come? Have to start somewhere. We'll see.

I guess it’s a little like street cars that had a pole with a spring that held a conductor to a live overhead power line. Some electric trains run the same way. I assume there would be a similar gadget under the car on a spring that would drag or roll along the ground or just above it. Interesting. I also assume that the vehicles using it would be registered automatically and charged for the current electricity they use. SECO charges us about 11 cents per kilowatt hour. Rechargers near the road charge a lot more than that. I assume that this in-the-road system would be even more, in addition to the toll. I drive a Prius Prime that gets 26 miles of driving on a charge from a standard outlet in my garage, then uses the gas engine after that like a regular Prius. So I pay 11 cents per KWH for that, and most weeks I use gas maybe once. Over 46,000 miles of driving, I’m getting 153 miles per gallon on gas usage. Without that electricity, I’d get about 50.

srswans 12-17-2023 10:15 AM

No, Induction
 
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Originally Posted by MandoMan (Post 2283134)
… I assume there would be a similar gadget under the car on a spring that would drag or roll along the ground or just above it..

No mechanical contacts is used - there is an air-gap between road surface and car charger.

This is just a proof-of-concept not production.

defrey12 12-17-2023 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by BrianL99 (Post 2282682)
It's surprising to me, that Florida seems to be in the forefront for some interesting technology.

This could certainly change the EV dynamic.


Florida toll road will charge electric vehicles as they drive

So, our tax and toll dollars are going towards a yet unproven technology… based in fear of a government created problem that doesn’t actually exist. Oh, boy…count me in !

Topspinmo 12-17-2023 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by mickey100 (Post 2283097)
Hard to believe Florida would be in the forefront of anything.

Lot of people move from the so called forefront states every day to Florida.

mickey100 12-17-2023 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Topspinmo (Post 2283263)
Lot of people move from the so called forefront states every day to Florida.

Right, all those people attracted to book bans and other issues we're not allowed to discuss.

JMintzer 12-17-2023 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by mickey100 (Post 2283277)
Right, all those people attracted to book bans and other issues we're not allowed to discuss.

Including "book bans", which never happened in Florida...

Bill14564 12-17-2023 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by JMintzer (Post 2283284)
Including "book bans", which never happened in Florida...

Except for those that did...but only in schools and not on Amazon so it doesn't count


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