I just found this article. If this is true then this is so cool. It would be much easier to charge the car if this wireless thing existed. No need to install an outlet.
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- Thread starter KJSS4
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Umm.. installing a wireless charging pad for your car in your garage would likely be a lot more involved than installing an outlet.
Watts_Up
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Wireless charging is mostly for the futur RoboTaxi or parking in the street to prevent vadalism from getting the cable to be stollen.
Otherwise who really want to spend the extra cost of installing a wireless charger in a garage floor and to buy and install an extra coil under a car?
Also this will be not as efficient than a plug, so this will add extra cost unless you get free electricity from solar panels.
Otherwise who really want to spend the extra cost of installing a wireless charger in a garage floor and to buy and install an extra coil under a car?
Also this will be not as efficient than a plug, so this will add extra cost unless you get free electricity from solar panels.
RTPEV
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Well yeah, but plugging in is not very complicated...takes about 10 seconds.
That said, there are some good use cases for it.
If you live in a place where you have a dedicated parking spot, but it's in a parking lot with a sidewalk immediately adjacent to your spot, it may not be practical to install a charging station that doesn't partially block the sidewalk. A wireless charging pad would be a benefit there.
Also, if you have a garage where the only practical place to install a charging station is in the back of the garage, it may necessitate backing the car in (a drawback of Tesla's charge port placement). This does create a slightly more complicated charge routine. The same is true for public parking spots that have diagonal parking. Usually the cables are quite long for those spots, but this creates a problem with cable management (or rather mis-management).
Also there is an accessibility. Some people have strength or motor control issues that make handling a cable and/or plugging in difficult.
A friend asked about wireless charging because they have a charge port on the right side (which is the wrong side, should have been the left side) and hate that they have to to walk around the vehicle to plug in and unplug.
RTPEV
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While I somewhat agree with the sentiment, I don't think that wireless charging is the kind of thing that would necessarily turn into vaporware like Tesla's other "moon shot" projects. The technology has existed for years: it's more just a matter of installing it on the vehicles (and providing the external hardware). That is, if they feel compelled to offer it. At least they are talking about it and putting pictures of it in their shareholder update presentations, so it's got a decent chance, unlike bidirectional charging and a way to keep the music on while I'm tailgating in my Tesla!
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