This is unefficient, you loose 20% of power during induction transmission and you must equip the cars/trucks with special induction receptors that stay close to the road , and on only 1.5Km long for 4 especially equiped vehicules ? what's the point will they do round trips ?
I remember when they tried a solar road, that was of course a dead end, highly unefficient lot of money spent for nothing.
Quote from: Dodfr on October 29, 2025, 21:54:06This is unefficient, you loose 20% of power during induction transmission and you must equip the cars/trucks with special induction receptors that stay close to the road , and on only 1.5Km long for 4 especially equiped vehicules ? what's the point will they do round trips ?
I remember when they tried a solar road, that was of course a dead end, highly unefficient lot of money spent for nothing.
Efficiency is relative, sure you lose 20% efficiency, but still much much better than losing 80% efficiency on an ICE car.
Sure you need to equip them with induction receptors, but you can also reduce the amount of batteries you need.
The 1.5km is just a pilot to do testing. Obviously nobody is going to deploy hundreds of miles before they test it on smaller pilots.
South Korea has actually did something similar for OLEV buses and it has done very well for the last decade.
For certain high traffic areas it may make sense even with the losses, and not just highway but cities next to traffic lights. It would help those who live in apartments for example.
As for solar roads, those never made sense to begin with. Solar panels need light to get energy, putting a solar panel on the road itself contradicts how solar panels work. It is like putting a refrigerator inside a furnace. The solar panels would have been much better off in parking lot roofs then on something as ridiculous as roads