German Road Map to Electromobility
German Road Map to Electromobility
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anonymous-user

Original Poster:

72 months

Wednesday 12th July 2017
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For those interested, and wondering if "EVs are Viable"?? have a look at this document:

https://www.vda.de/dam/vda/publications/2017/Normu...


It's coming, and faster than you might imagine!

Otispunkmeyer

13,412 posts

173 months

Wednesday 12th July 2017
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Cheers pet

Very useful

raspy

2,087 posts

112 months

Thursday 13th July 2017
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I can't wait to wirelessly charge my EV in the future smile

rxe

6,700 posts

121 months

Thursday 13th July 2017
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Can someone explain wireless charging at the EV scale to me? Pretty much everything I've read about it points to huge inefficicency, it is between 40 and 60% efficient depending on frequency. Now that is fine when you are charging an iPhone, you are shoving a few watts in and losing a handful. But doing this with a 10 or 20 kW charge, implies a large number of kilowatts being shed as heat. This seems dangerous (it's going to get very hot....) and wasteful.