… if it’s made by Toyota.
If I leave my IPhone in the car while charging - will it charge that too?
All well and good for the folks who can’t remember to UNplug before they drive away… We KNOW this will happen, it has with gas pump hoses!
But there are losses involved in wireless charging. Would you will willing to spend up to 10% more for the power used to charge your electric car just for the convenience? Might make some sense on remote chargers but the efficiency will be just as poor.
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Good concept for public charging. You can charge more vehicles in a given space. Don’t even have to get out of your car. But I still think a large portion of the population will be charging at home. Not a good idea for them.
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Why do you think that? A single parking space with 3-4 feet of extra room for the charger is all that’s needed now. In a public wireless charge, there’d still need to be a kiosk to pay for it.
Or are you thinking free spaces?
For that there simply could be a micro switch etc. to detect the presence of the plug and disable the motor.
I’ve read about problems with wireless phone chargers in cars getting hot etc.
Now they’re going to do the same thing at 1000X higher power level?
I’ll pass!
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The way the chargers are set up now, you have to park side by side in front of a charger. With wireless charging you can configure the parking in all different configurations. Have two linear rows where you parallel park would give you more room. You could also set it up like an automatic car wash where it slowly moves the cars along a belt and comes out charged.
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All I see with the inner city houses parking on the streets and apartment building parking out in the open etc etc, that there will be a LOT of charging cables being stolen and or stripped for copper…
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Good point! Might make those wireless charging spots more useful.
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I can’t speak for any other makes or models, but I can tell you that with my plug-in hybrid, you can’t put it in gear if it’s still plugged in. I strongly suspect that this feature also exists on EVs, as well as other plug-in hybrids.
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When one plugs in his vehicle for charging, the plug of the charging cable is locked in place–until the owner with the correct key fob comes along to unlock everything. Or, at least that’s the way that it works with my plug-in hybrid. Perhaps @jtsanders can chime in to tell us if it also works that way on his new Tesla.
Of course, someone who really wants that cable could cut it–at the risk of being fried by 240-480 volts, depending on whether it’s a Level 2 or Level 3 charger.
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Similar thing happened in Manchester NH some 20 years ago. A couple of brain trusts tried to steal copper cable at a transfer station one night. They found their charred bodies the following morning.
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But, at least they were posthumous recipients of Darwin Awards!
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You have to get out of the car or turn everything off. No AC, no radio. If you run any of them you’ll never get to 100%. I think it’s best to get out and go away unless you are supercharging and want to stop at 80%.
The crooks will just dig the copper lines out of the street.
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Sadly, you are probably right!
Back in the “good old days” of the '70s, stripping copper wire and lead piping from abandoned buildings in The Bronx was a major business enterprise for the felonious folks.
I know that we always had the 1000 volt gloves handy if needed at work for many years and supposed to send them back to be swapped out every 6 months (well send back as cores) so if we didn’t send them back the store just lost a few dollars on the operating statement which was over looked a lot, no glove police ever came after us… lol
Point being I guess if you were brave enough you could with the right tools cut the cable while it was love using the proper equipment… Meee, heck NO, I had to be hybrid certified but I stayed away from the high voltage part of them… I still have all the information from back then, it’s probably out of date by now but the basics are still in place…
The vehicles that have to parallel park on the road in front of there houses have to get the cable to their vehicle one way or another and that is a lot of copper just waiting to be stolen by these scum bags, I mean entrepreneurs of the recycling misappropriated world of copper…
Insulated snipers if you watch the line men or women. It never stopped the guys that stole the street light wiring in St. Paul. Lights on lights off.
There is a Reuters article talking about having to scrap ev s with minor battery damage due to a minor crash. Might raise insurance rates.
I think that’s already baked into the EV insurance rates.
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Eventually electric cars may not even have to stop to charge up. Charging system in the roadway.