Witricity

[Guest Jabberwocky]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiTricity

 

what an interesting idea. I wounder how long it would be until we get cars powered like this

[Guest erichetherington]

Fascinating, but if cars were powered by this could they just be stopped remotely if you transgressed in any way?

[Guest Jabberwocky]

I supposed but it would depend on if every car had it's own frequency

[Guest timswait]

Between 1969 and 1975 Bill Brown was technical director of a JPL Raytheon program that beamed 30 kW over a distance of 1 mile at 84% efficiency.

So that's why Bill had his battery in the boot - wireless transmission to the front of the car!