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Detroit's newest road can charge electric cars as they drive on it (www.axios.com)

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Detroit is now home to the country's first chunk of road that can wirelessly charge an electric vehicle (EV), whether it's parked or moving.

Why it matters: Wireless charging on an electrified roadway could remove one of the biggest hassles of owning an EV: the need to stop and plug in regularly.

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[-] SCB@lemmy.world -5 points 9 months ago

Other countries are no percent of the size of the US. The entire Indian subcontinent can fit on our eastern seaboard with room to spare.

The US is big, and has a lot of cities. We have an enormous amount of existing road infrastructure. We are not going to stop using all of that infrastructure any time soon - that's just reality.

You're acting like this change would be "just build trains lol" and that couldn't be more incorrect.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 9 months ago

We built those highways over the last 70 years, with most of the work done in the first decade or two of that timespan. These decisions are not immutable laws of nature. They can be undone if we determine they are bad, and they pretty clearly are.

[-] SCB@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago

I have not seen a convincing argument that highways are bad. Do you have a link on that?

[-] kense@lmmy.dk 2 points 9 months ago

Global warming?

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

Global warming and highways aren't causally linked.

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