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Re:Volvo signals 'end of the solely combustion engine-powere... by yardie on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @08:34AM (#14701870)
Have you felt how much heat your average 10W Qi charger puts out. While that energy loss is acceptable for a smartphone or tablet with a 10Wh battery your average BEV stores kWh of charge.

2 slabs of metal can move way more electrons than an electromagnet.

Re:Volvo signals 'end of the solely combustion engine-powere... by londons_explore on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @09:25AM (#14702186)
A charging connector on the bottom of the car with some kind of self-aligning plastic shield could serve the same purpose.

Park in a parking space, and the spring loaded charging connector built into the road surface springs up and connects the car and charging begins.

Re:Volvo signals 'end of the solely combustion engine-powere... by yardie on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @12:17PM (#14703686)
Then you get into the whole how do you design a better mousetrap problem. Floors get dirty. Roads get dirty. Car bottoms get dirty. Electrical contacts like to be clean. When they are not they get hot, carbonize, and then enter a chain reaction until it fails or catches fire.

Whatever solution you can conceive is going to be too expensive simply because you have to protect a high voltage/high amperage connection from the elements.