无线电动汽车充电:但这仍然放不进口袋

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我在 Plugged In 上的第一篇文章 涉及了电动汽车。 现在,请记住:很难对电动汽车感到过于兴奋。 诚然,它们比燃油车更好,但这标准相当低:电动汽车基本上是燃煤车,继续助长城市扩张及其所有问题,同时对地球的危害比燃油车前辈要小。

所以就只能给两声欢呼吧。 尽管如此,既然它们是一种进步,看看有什么新进展也很有趣。 而今天的新进展就是无线充电。 我在罗利举行的电动汽车爱好者盛会 Plugin 2011 上对 公交车的无线充电 感到震惊,所以我很高兴看到它们在一年多后就能供消费者使用。

说真的。 电动汽车用户称各种插电线为“牵引绳”,这是有道理的。 您可能记得每次驶出加油站时都要拔掉加油枪,但如果您的汽车整夜都在充电,您在上班快迟到时,手里拿着咖啡、吐司和公文包,跳上车,犯了一个您真希望自己没有犯的错误,这种情况会发生多少次? (好吧,也有 自动脱离插头。 真酷!) 另外,我们甚至不要考虑忘记在晚上插入该死的插头。


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这就是为什么罗利——我的小镇!——成为全国 第一个试用电动汽车免费无线充电的城市,通过 阿波罗计划。 罗利的试点计划将仅允许市属车辆进行无线充电(在仅限市政车辆的停车场的特殊地点)。 因此,罗利的司机们,他们已经习惯了作为 Project Get Ready落基山研究所 的一个非营利项目,旨在弄清楚公共充电站如何运作和付费)的一部分的免费充电,还需要一段时间才能在他们常用的地点发现他们已经落后于时代了。

该系统由 Evatran 公司推出,该公司技术和销售办事处就在罗利郊外,该系统很简单。 它使用普通的电磁感应,基本上是将变压器的一个线圈安装在您的车库地板上,另一个线圈安装在您的汽车中,从而 产生为您的电池充电的电流。 您几乎不需要我告诉您,这东西会判断您何时在家,自行开始充电,并在完成后停止充电。 适用于 Leaf 和 Volt 等车型,甚至可以作为选配订购。

再说一遍:Evatran 的视频称之为颠覆性变革,但如果您的屁股仍然坐在汽车座椅上,那几乎就是“非颠覆性变革”的定义。 尽管如此:更便宜的电力,更清洁的电力,另一件可能帮助您醒来的东西。 这一切都很好。

很高兴看到罗利在汽车能源前瞻性方面仍然领先。

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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