On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Peter C. Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > Nope, try again. :) We're getting much better than that. Better than my > homebuilt plug-in car can do. > http://qualcommhalo.com
I see you are an engineer working there! Cool! The only docs on the site say "comparable" charging times - which doesn't say much. If efficiency can get over 95% it'd almost be good enough for me to consider using for bulk charging - otherwise I'd prefer a hard-connection where efficiency is typically 98-99%. I hate turning energy into heat unless I need it! > The real proposition is in the city - where you dare not leave anything that > the punks down the street can steal. Not just theft of cables, but vandalism is a real issue as well. My biggest issue is that we already have a quite a few different charging standards (J1772 for L1/L2, CHAdeMO for DCQC, J1772-Combo, Tesla has two different plugs (Roadster, Model S). Not to mention the various EV plugs that came before J1772 (which have thankfully mostly died off) and European standards (Mennekes). And now wireless charging standards - how many different manufactures of wireless charging are going to come out? Qualcomm has theirs - I know Nissan is also actively working on one and so is Toyota... Fragmentation is a big hindrance to plug-in vehicle adoption. -Dave _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
