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Re:New York EV Garbage Trucks can only snow plow for 4 hours... by dragonwriter on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @05:18PM (#34252699)
> Cars travel on roads almost exclusively. In the US, 90%+ passenger miles are on roads that already have some amount of power infrastructure (lightposts) and if we just made it so that our vehicles could plug into electricity at all points of their journey, then EVs are basically solved.

So, your solution for EVs is overheard wires or third rails for every lane of every roadway?

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Re:New York EV Garbage Trucks can only snow plow for 4 hours... by RC_ITR on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @05:21PM (#34252741)
>So, your solution for EVs is overheard wires

I think that is a much more solvable problem than charging and batteries yes.

Do I think it will happen in my lifetime? No. But there's a reason that we don't have battery-powered trains, and it's not like in 2022, cars are that much more "off-road" than trains are "off-track"

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Re:New York EV Garbage Trucks can only snow plow for 4 hours... by TylerE on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @06:06PM (#34253281)
Roads with tram lines are short to drive on. There’s even a phenomenon called “tram lining” where the road is toomhumped in the middle and makes lane changes sketchy.
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Re:New York EV Garbage Trucks can only snow plow for 4 hours... by RC_ITR on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @06:17PM (#34253399)
Tramlining is when the topography of the road causes cars to move differently than how they are steered (somewhat similarly to tram tracks) and has nothing to do with overhead electric or actual trams.

https://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/techpage.jsp?techid=...

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Re:New York EV Garbage Trucks can only snow plow for 4 hours... by ClumsyPilot on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @07:58PM (#34254401)
> So, your solution for EVs is overheard wires or third rails for every lane of every roadway?

Do you think adding hundreds of KG of batteries to two billion cars is more reasonable?

We produce enough conductors to wire every street in America in a couple years. At the current rate of battery production, replacing all cars in the world will take over 100 years.

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Re:New York EV Garbage Trucks can only snow plow for 4 hours... by rad_gruchalski on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @09:25PM (#34255113)
kg, not KG. K is Kelvin, G is giga - this unit does not make sense.
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