Posted on 03/29/2024 10:28:29 AM PDT by DallasBiff
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WISH) — Indiana plans to rebuild a small section of highway that by next summer could charge electric vehicles being driven.
Purdue University and Indiana government’s Department of Transportation, in separate news releases issued Wednesday, touted the construction project as the first highway segment in the nation with wireless charging. Construction could begin as soon as April 1.
Neither Purdue or the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) reported how much the project will cost.
Indianapolis-based White Construction was awarded a contract to build the wireless power-transfer technology in a quarter-mile of U.S. 231/U.S. 52 between Cumberland Avenue and Lindberg Road in West Lafayette. That’s near the Walmart Supercenter and the INDOT West Lafayette regional office.
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At the low low cost of only a quadrillion dollars per mile!
It will cost billions and billions... and be a colossal failure. Watch.
Will ICE vehicles explode from the electrical charge?
BS; won’t happen.
Rain and pedestrians?
Given the car-exclusive mentality of the commuter lobby and the highway engineers, it will probably be designed to electrocute pedestrians and bicyclists who try to cross it.
How much charging can you do while driving 1/4 mile? Will the highway be safe for people wearing pacemakers?
Slot cars!
Beat me to it. I was trying to remember what they were called.
It takes less than fifteen seconds go a quarter mile. How much charging will that give me?
Well a car going 60 mph over a quarter mile of highway will be on it for 15 seconds. That’s got to be one hell of a charger they are putting in the concrete. And how many EV drivers will get on it and then stop till their car is charged up. I’d get me a lawn chair and a bag of popcorn and sit on the side of the road and watch the show.
There are a lot of nut cases in West Lafayette.
As I think about this, I see layer upon layer of complication (and cost). Plus, what is the safety factor of this to the people in the cars, to pedestrians, etc. How does it work when it rains or snows?
Don’t touch the third stripe on the highway!
THAT shorts out in any rain EVENT-— kills motorists
HOW about snow???
I have heard plenty of dumb stuff in my day, but this one rings the bell!
You have to spend it to steal it.
Perfect for this media outlet — WISH TV !
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