Is there a name for the phenomenon where the general public won't stop mentioning a solution that they /imagine/ will be standard one day without knowing the details behind it?
That's a word salad but like, "plug type won't matter once wireless charging becomes the norm" is, uh, a sentiment few people who know much about electricity transmission and electric vehicles will agree with, yet it's repeated ad nauseum.
@BernardRR @ragrum for clarity, I'm aware that there have been demonstrations that have efficiency on par with wired installations.
But I can't see a world in which wireless inductive pickups on cars is a truly reasonable cost to add to the vehicle, and charging infrastructure is a lot more expensive, too.
In the real-world, I can't see it as practical. Another solution in search of a problem, imo
@BernardRR @ragrum not to mention that even if we do make a successful and inexpensive inductive pickup device for the car, it's gonna be in a very vulnerable spot.
So it's like, we'll add a ton of cost to both car and infrastructure to, at best, meet wired efficiency and create a ton of new problems in the process... or we just connect the car right to the grid.
The latter seems like a pretty sensible choice to me.
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