無線電動汽車充電:但這仍然放不進口袋

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我在 Plugged In 上的第一篇文章 涉及了電動汽車。 現在,請記住:很難對電動汽車感到過於興奮。 誠然,它們比燃油車更好,但這標準相當低:電動汽車基本上是燃煤車,繼續助長城市擴張及其所有問題,同時對地球的危害比燃油車前輩要小。

所以就只能給兩聲歡呼吧。 儘管如此,既然它們是一種進步,看看有什麼新進展也很有趣。 而今天的新進展就是無線充電。 我在羅利舉行的電動汽車愛好者盛會 Plugin 2011 上對 公交車的無線充電 感到震驚,所以我很高興看到它們在一年多後就能供消費者使用。

說真的。 電動汽車使用者稱各種插電線為“牽引繩”,這是有道理的。 您可能記得每次駛出加油站時都要拔掉加油槍,但如果您的汽車整夜都在充電,您在上班快遲到時,手裡拿著咖啡、吐司和公文包,跳上車,犯了一個您真希望自己沒有犯的錯誤,這種情況會發生多少次? (好吧,也有 自動脫離插頭。 真酷!) 另外,我們甚至不要考慮忘記在晚上插入該死的插頭。


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這就是為什麼羅利——我的小鎮!——成為全國 第一個試用電動汽車免費無線充電的城市,透過 阿波羅計劃。 羅利的試點計劃將僅允許市屬車輛進行無線充電(在僅限市政車輛的停車場的特殊地點)。 因此,羅利的司機們,他們已經習慣了作為 Project Get Ready落基山研究所 的一個非營利專案,旨在弄清楚公共充電站如何運作和付費)的一部分的免費充電,還需要一段時間才能在他們常用的地點發現他們已經落後於時代了。

該系統由 Evatran 公司推出,該公司技術和銷售辦事處就在羅利郊外,該系統很簡單。 它使用普通的電磁感應,基本上是將變壓器的一個線圈安裝在您的車庫地板上,另一個線圈安裝在您的汽車中,從而 產生為您的電池充電的電流。 您幾乎不需要我告訴您,這東西會判斷您何時在家,自行開始充電,並在完成後停止充電。 適用於 Leaf 和 Volt 等車型,甚至可以作為選配訂購。

再說一遍:Evatran 的影片稱之為顛覆性變革,但如果您的屁股仍然坐在汽車座椅上,那幾乎就是“非顛覆性變革”的定義。 儘管如此:更便宜的電力,更清潔的電力,另一件可能幫助您醒來的東西。 這一切都很好。

很高興看到羅利在汽車能源前瞻性方面仍然領先。

Scott Huler was born in 1959 in Cleveland and raised in that city's eastern suburbs. He graduated from Washington University in 1981; he was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa because of the breadth of his studies, and that breadth has been a signature of his writing work. He has written on everything from the death penalty to bikini waxing, from NASCAR racing to the stealth bomber, for such newspapers as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Los Angeles Times and such magazines as ESPN, Backpacker, and Fortune. His award-winning radio work has been heard on "All Things Considered" and "Day to Day" on National Public Radio and on "Marketplace" and "Splendid Table" on American Public Media. He has been a staff writer for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Raleigh News & Observer and a staff reporter and producer for Nashville Public Radio. He was the founding and managing editor of the Nashville City Paper. He has taught at such colleges as Berry College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

His books include Defining the Wind, about the Beaufort Scale of wind force, and No-Man's Lands, about retracing the journey of Odysseus.

His most recent book, On the Grid, was his sixth. His work has been included in such compilations as Appalachian Adventure and in such anthologies as Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont, The Appalachian Trail Reader and Speed: Stories of Survival from Behind the Wheel.

For 2014-2015 Scott is a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, which is funding his work on the Lawson Trek, an effort to retrace the journey of explorer John Lawson through the Carolinas in 1700-1701.

He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, the writer June Spence, and their two sons.

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