{"id":736,"date":"2009-01-21T13:56:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T20:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/?p=736"},"modified":"2009-04-14T10:24:28","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T17:24:28","slug":"electric-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2009\/01\/electric-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/01\/21\/profile-of-paypal-an.html\">This Article on Tesla Motors <\/a>reminded me of a potential solution to the range problem with electric vehicles. <\/p>\n<p>Slot Cars!<\/p>\n<p>Start with the Interstates and put an inductance coil down the middle of a lane and let the car pick up electrical power from the road. This way it can reserve its on-board batteries for when it is off the grid, or off-road. <\/p>\n<p>The road power can be delivered by roadside solar panels, wind power, or by the national grid as needed. With feedback between the car and the road, cars can be zipping along at 50 mps or better, with some sort of auto-piloting.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Then expand to convert other US Routes and the rest of the country can slowly follow suit. <\/p>\n<p>Slot cars, that the ticket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Article on Tesla Motors reminded me of a potential solution to the range problem with electric vehicles. Slot Cars! Start with the Interstates and put an inductance coil down the middle of a lane and let the car pick up electrical power from the road. This way it can reserve its on-board batteries for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2009\/01\/electric-cars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Electric Cars<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-bS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}