Elon bashed wireless charging years ago so the Tesla club is ready to pounce whenever the topic of wireless charging comes up to make sure the great prophet Elon remains infallible.

In the real world wireless charging has advanced by leaps and bounds and now offers great advantages to supplement wired charging. But first, people need to update their knowledge on the efficiency of wireless charging. Companies such as Witricity are selling wireless systems that charge your car with transfer efficiencies as good as if you plugged into your wall at home with the charge cable that came with your EV. These are on sale. This is not theoretical. You can buy one and measure the efficiency yourself. Some companies even offer 2 way transfer to support V2G.

So will wireless replace wired connections? Of course not. Most people are not going to spend the money to install a wireless connection in their garage when plugging a car in before you walk away takes seconds. But where it can be useful is in public locations where vandalism is a concern, or even visual clutter is objected to by the neighbours. Or where people may not feel safe exiting their car to plug in, or where it could get annoying to plug in frequently or in poor weather... like a taxi stand. Or for fleet vehicles like buses that make periodic stops for short periods of time. Or wherever autonomy takes off.

Specific to electric highways to charge while in motion, there's tremendous potential. I expect that heavy trucking will make use of this first. Primarily, It will enable small battery vehicles to preform at the same or greater level as a large battery vehicle in terms of range. The expense of installing these in roads is not as large as some imagine either. This technology doesn't need to blanket the road network to be hugely useful. Short, targeted installations, such as the up incline of major hills are the perfect place to start since this turns a huge energy drain into a charge opportunity that continues on the way down as the vehicle then uses gravity to regenerate. The savings gained from not needing to install the biggest batteries can easily pay for the cost to add wireless transfer to a truck.

Dude. This is not theoretical. Witricity, as an example, is selling wireless charging systems right now that match wired connections in transfer efficiency..

The key takeaway from the interview is: We need to be building at scale TODAY, not a decade from now which is what the new designs promise. By then it's too late. The frustrating part is we HAVE the renewable technology to get going but we're lacking political will.

This will end very badly. Crypto is effectively a ponzi scheme.

I've been using DDG for a couple years now and on the rare occasion that I do give Google a try, I'm actually annoyed by how many adds/sponsored results come up.

At one point it effectively was. At least an option at point of purchase. Now Toyota is getting greedy and trying to make it an ongoing charge...

Vinyl is simply the ultimate format when it comes to 'owning' the record & actually supporting the artist. A Large box for excellent artwork and notes and a fully analog medium that is substantial in your hands. Listen to it on special occasions, maybe, but most people will still be listening to a digital copy day-to-day.

Nuclear power shouldn't be on earth, but it's got a bright future in space.

It's unfortunate that the need for a few old men in the boardrooms of Toyota and the halls of the Japanese government to save face means that the world suffers.

By enforcing a common connector, not only will we eliminate the junk pile of old connectors but it will enable manufacturers to create a high quality cord, made from materials that will last. Consumers will be able justify a one time expense to buy a more expensive but perhaps even repairable cord since they only need to buy once for a decade or more of use out of their purchase. I know that concept probably horrifies a ton of Americans: OMG paying more for something that's not disposable? Communism!

Where are all those commenters who, only a couple years ago, very seriously assured us all that coal could not be replaced? That coal was here to stay?

The biggest wind turbines tend to go far off shore.

Good for Linus!

No shock that Amazon is a bad place to work. It's also filled with fly-by-night operators who just resell sale items from Costco at double the price with shipping tacked on as well.