Interesting story about home automobile gasoline filling stations in residential property

You should be careful, leaving yourself open with straight lines like that. I'm really tempted. Honest, I am!

The military has that option on some air planes. I know, I saw it in a movie once. Iron Eagle, was it?

My Oral-B electric toothbrush uses inductive charging. It works.

--Vic.

How about hanging up your key ring, or putting it in your pocket? Pain in the ass, ain't it? You don't have to plug your Volt in at work. If your work round trip is beyond the the Volt range, you have choices without plugging in at work.

1. Don't buy a Volt.
2. Let the IC engine kick in for part of the trip.

--Vic

People thought N. Tesla was crazy too. :-)

Actually, I could go for a baba and nappy right now. You ain't got nothing over me!

No, that was "Transformers V: Revenge of the Hand-Held Devices."

Lead us not into temptation...

ZDNet-

Induction charging is only efficient if the gap between the charger and the charged device is very small or the frequency is very high.

That would work. It would have to be reasonably cost effective though. The Volt payback is in decades compared to a similar gas powered car.

But it can be done at 68 to 70 degrees indoors, not at 10 degrees and a 30 mph wind like re-fueling.

I'm taking option 1.

It is cheaper to run as the IC engine is not very efficient. The initial cost though, makes it prohibitive. I had the cost some time back and the payback for me is something like 28 years. I forget the numbers so I'm not going to guess here.

From what I've read, the heat and AC is not very good either, as you'd expect. I want some comfort in my 25 mile commute.

If the initial cost can be competitive in a small car, it would be good for the city commuter, the trip to the supermarket type of trip. That day may come, but it is not here yet.

Being 50 years older is one big reason. When I was 16 I could do a lot of things easer than I can at 66. I could even do some of them two or three times a day. :)

ZDNet-

What a total waste of resources.

Try driving your toothbrush to work.

He certainly ended up that way.