Test? Is it safe?

[Peter Korsten]

The Dong schreef:

> There are other advantages to the electric car.
> The main one most seem to overlook is it is simpler mechanically.
> There is potentially much less professional maintenance required, less 
> mess (unless your batteries explode, feel the fear) indeed, a lot of 
> these cars could be much easier/cheaper to keep going than a petrol 
> beast as long as it's engineered well from the start.
> It's possible, with a big investment in Solar or Wind to recharge 
> without hookup to the mains.

Nowadays, they have trams running on induction, and there are even plans 
to do this for trains:

http://www.railwaygazette.com/news_view/article/2009/04/9476/primove_catenary_free_induction_tram.html

I wonder if it would work for cars as well, at least under motorways and 
other main arteries. Identify a car by some sort of ID, and bill the 
driver accordingly. The technology is here already. For the remaining 
bits, you could use batteries.

- Peter