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Indiana to build highway able to charge electric vehicles while moving
WishTV.com ^ | 3/27/24 | Gregg Montgomery

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: boondoggle; car; emf; ev; fakenews; firetraps; freeenergy; indiana; induction; magnetism; magnets; radiation
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To: DallasBiff

This reminded me of another scam...

Solar Freakin’ Roadways!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlTA3rnpgzU

https://solarroadways.com/


61 posted on 03/29/2024 11:08:56 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Nothing says "Democracy" like throwing your opponents in jail.)
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To: DallasBiff
The only way to know if EVs are going to be successful is to let the free markets tell us. Government subsidies create an imbalance and make otherwise bad ideas look good. Subsidies put a thumb on the scale.

Building an electric highway is a risky idea until EVs have proven themselves in the unsubsidized markets. And as yet, there are no unsubsidized EV markets to tell us the truth.

All that said, Ford, GM, Mercedes, BMW are pulling back their ambitious plans for EVs. Perhaps they know something that Indiana doesn't.

62 posted on 03/29/2024 11:09:52 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a closed mind will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: DallasBiff

“Indiana to build highway able to charge electric vehicles while moving”

Indiana Jones? Or one of many with the name “Indiana” (consummated while in Indiana)

OH! Indiana TAXPAYERS! Wait... a “highway project”?

FEDERAL! We will ALL pay.

Just another nail in the coffin of our Republic.

EVs, NO ONE WANTS THEM. We are energy efficient and an EXPORTER of energy. (thank you Donald Trump). We don’t NEED EVs.

What EV is going to haul my 34 ft RV? (and how far if it even could haul it?)

They are going to FORCE us into EVs, electric EVERYTHING stoves, dryers, water heaters, furnaces, lawn mowers, leaf blowers, cars, trucks, busses, trains, airplanes, ships, and whatever I forgot.

WHERE IS THE ELECTRICITY GOING TO COME FROM?

Solar panels? FAIL

Wind farms? FAIL

What electric grid can handle this new load?

NOT OURS!

We could build a new power grid including nuclear power plants.

How many BILLIONS or TRILLIONS would that cost?

HOW LONG would it take to build it?

DECADES!

They are SERIES.

Who would be behind all this madness?

“I’m not saying it’s aliens, but it’s aliens”


63 posted on 03/29/2024 11:12:43 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Reno89519

The embeded in the road charging cable system creates a magnetic field, and a device in the vehicle picks up the magnetic field and transforms it back to electricity. I think they’ve shown you are not going to get a electricity charge walking on the pavement.


64 posted on 03/29/2024 11:14:27 AM PDT by Wuli (ena)
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To: DallasBiff
Well, the Indiana residents will be paying dearly for electricity, it the legislature is stupid enough to approve this.

Anyone living in Indiana should immediately move.

65 posted on 03/29/2024 11:14:34 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: DallasBiff
...wireless charging.

Doesn't sound healthy.

I wonder about the level of EMF radiation.

66 posted on 03/29/2024 11:16:09 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Track9
LOL


67 posted on 03/29/2024 11:16:13 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: DallasBiff
"Indiana to build highway able to charge electric vehicles while moving"

How much copper does that require and how much more weight does the receiver add to a vehicle?
68 posted on 03/29/2024 11:16:39 AM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: DallasBiff

EVs - the new third rail of politics.


69 posted on 03/29/2024 11:16:44 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: plain talk

I assume it’s inductive charging. Could be a good idea for one lane on major roads if EV become real popular. I wonder how much cancer that high an inductive field would cause. Continuous CT scan level fields or would it be more like MRI.


70 posted on 03/29/2024 11:17:24 AM PDT by wgmalabama (Censored!)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

The “Dunning-Kruger Effect”


71 posted on 03/29/2024 11:20:34 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: DallasBiff

EV drivers have trouble charging their EV , watch this guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Yo4LpksWM


72 posted on 03/29/2024 11:23:21 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: DallasBiff

It was invented in 1985.

73 posted on 03/29/2024 11:25:56 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: SpaceBar
"It will cost billions and billions... and be a colossal failure. Watch."

The electrical outlet will be cheap, but it's the 30-mile-long extension cord that you'll have to reconnect every 30 miles or less, that will cost a fortune.

74 posted on 03/29/2024 11:28:15 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: DallasBiff

That fiasco has the potential to have an ugly ending.


75 posted on 03/29/2024 11:29:03 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Xiden tries to come off as a tough guy but can't stop a herd of raggedy ass Mexicans from invading.)
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To: DallasBiff
It will not be built at all, there is no real intent to built it, but a whole lot of money will be spent.

Meanwhile in the real world, the Democrats are deliberately sabotaging the grid. To save the planet, see? Why do you hate the planet? /snicker

76 posted on 03/29/2024 11:29:08 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: DallasBiff

A simple solution...We need to replace 574,948 miles of roadways in the U.S. to make EVs more practical.


77 posted on 03/29/2024 11:30:54 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: DallasBiff

Wait a second how do they bill you for the charging ? Do you have to pay big time to drive on the road ?


78 posted on 03/29/2024 11:31:08 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: DallasBiff

It will kill unsuspecting animals by the thousands.


79 posted on 03/29/2024 11:32:22 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: DallasBiff

“Indianapolis-based White Construction “

And just what is the connection to the idiot politicians who are stealing tax dollars to pay for this boondoggle?


80 posted on 03/29/2024 11:39:02 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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