Charge your Leaf over a spot on the ground:
http://www.nissan-global.com/EN/TECHNOLOGY/OVERVIEW/wcs.html
http://www.nissan-global.com/EN/TECHNOLOGY/OVERVIEW/wcs.html
foolios said:Charge your Leaf over a spot on the ground:
http://www.nissan-global.com/EN/TECHNOLOGY/OVERVIEW/wcs.html
Nubo said:Pointless for home use, imho.
But for public charging I can see that has potential to mitigate problems with wear, vandalism and theft if the pad can be hardened or put under pavement.
bluedream42 said:A wireless charging system would allow a self-driving vehicle to charge itself without user intervention.
bigrob90 said:bluedream42 said:A wireless charging system would allow a self-driving vehicle to charge itself without user intervention.
True, but I think self-driving cars as a widespread thing are a ways off. Not due to technology, but due to municipalities not wanting to lose the revenue of ticketing drivers and the issues it would cause in prosecuting the drug war ("probable cause" stops due to minor infractions are common. How does that work with computers doing the driving?).
Hahaha. Yes. I think there will be real pushback on this, though. And I don't think most of the self-driving car proponents have given consideration to how various city and county governments actually fund themselves.Nubo said:bigrob90 said:bluedream42 said:A wireless charging system would allow a self-driving vehicle to charge itself without user intervention.
True, but I think self-driving cars as a widespread thing are a ways off. Not due to technology, but due to municipalities not wanting to lose the revenue of ticketing drivers and the issues it would cause in prosecuting the drug war ("probable cause" stops due to minor infractions are common. How does that work with computers doing the driving?).
"Any algorithms in this car that I need to know about"?
foolios said:Charge your Leaf over a spot on the ground:
http://www.nissan-global.com/EN/TECHNOLOGY/OVERVIEW/wcs.html
camasleaf said:foolios said:Charge your Leaf over a spot on the ground:
http://www.nissan-global.com/EN/TECHNOLOGY/OVERVIEW/wcs.html
"The unique technology achieves a charging efficiency of 80-90%, equivalent to that of cable charging."
I am not sure how they twisted the number to come up with this result. The loss in a 20 feet #10 AWG cable at 30A is less than 1%. All other things equal I can not believe the loss in the inductive transfer is just 1%.
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1100946_electric-cars-sans-cords-nissan-readying-higher-power-inductive-chargingElectric Cars Sans Cords: Nissan Readying Higher-Power Inductive Charging
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