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May 1, 2020

Can Electric Cars on the Highway Emulate Plane-to-Plane Refueling?

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Jet fighters can’t carry a huge tank of fuel because it would slow them down. Instead they have recourse to air-to-air refueling, using massive tanker planes as their gas stations. If electric vehicles could pull off the same kind of peer-to-peer charging scheme it could eliminate range phobia and speed the adoption of EVs.


On-the-road peer-to-peer charging depends on steerable booms to make the connection.

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