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5 Ways Your Electric Car Could Be Continuously Recharged While You Drive | Hard Tech #7

Hard Tech Podcast · 18 Jun 2023 · 52m

What this episode covers

Host Daniel Laporte discusses five methods for continuously recharging electric vehicles while driving: overhead cables, conductive rail charging, inductive road charging, solar roofs, and charging robots. He highlights specific implementations including a German highway project for trucks, Electreon’s inductive technology in Sweden, Lightyear’s solar car, and Zigi robots at DFW Airport. Laporte argues that inductive road charging and solar integration offer the most seamless user experience for mass adoption.

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Electron Wireless, Lightyear, Fisker, Tesla, Volvo, Upcharge, Elon Road
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Zigi

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