Re:World's first electrified road for charging vehicles open...
by TheForumTroll on Thursday April 12, 2018 @05:28PM
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> the article does not address it in a way that gives me a good feeling about the safety of this system in the presence of moisture
It clearly states that salt water in the rail only gives off 1 volt at road level and that you can walk on it barefoot.
Note how industrial power is hardly ever ground fault protected because the leakage currents in the standard setup are too high already to reliably detect a ground fault.
In other words: if the system delivers enough power to electrical cars to meaningfully affect their state of charge there is inherent danger.