On December 24, 2016 at 13:35, Fins said...
You still don't understand the problem with winter and a highway system with power terminals built in. For one, in a big snow, sometimes they don't scrap all the way to the pavement. Many storms I've had to drive somewhere and the road had a couple inches of packed snow. Nothing is making contact with some power terminal built into the road. But the bigger problem is the amount of damage done to the road from the ground freezing, water seeping into cracks and freezing, and heavy plows scraping the roads. Here in the mountains, when winter is over, potholes are everywhere.
I get winter, do you think none of that exists here? The mistake is assuming it has to matter.
you are too fixated on the idea that powered road= vehicle gets power from the road using direct contact with the road. If that is the best way then OK, but look at
is this pic of an electric trolley from Russia rolling on an road that has not been cleared of snow yet?
is this a plug less car charger where the charger is on the ground while the car bottom is floating above it?
I am not advocating a particular design and there might be some that won't work with snow like those electric racing cars when I was young
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but there are countless way that could easily work even in the worst weather.
I will let engineers decide the best.
