Soon Amazon Drones Will Be Able To Recharge Your Electric Car… While You’re Driving
Being able to recharge an electric car while it’s still driving is the holy grail of future mobility. You could, theoretically, drive as far as you wanted even into areas where there are no charging stations.
Obviously it’s not that simple, but Amazon has been granted a patent for a drone that can dock with a specially-equipped car and dump a fresh battery-load of electricity into its metaphorical tank. Clever.
Car makers and suppliers are working hard on new battery technologies, like solid state, which would allow a drone to carry vastly more mileage to waiting cars, owing to higher energy densities and lower weight.
In this amazing future we’re talking about, when you order a recharge drone, presumably via your car’s Internet-connected Amazon link, it shows up at a specific rendezvous point and then identifies your car as it passes, before catching it up, enacting its mating ritual with your roof, after which you simply watch your driving range climb back up on your instrument cluster, if we have such things by the time this drone tech arrives.
The patent has sparked speculation that Amazon could be planning its own car, with which the drone would be designed to interface. It would give the car a crucial advantage over even long-range electric cars like Teslas. It wouldn’t be cheap, but for loaded business types, this really could be a technology worth paying for.
Source: TechRadar
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It’s like: Hey i am pissing in the toilet and drinking water at the same time!
Source of inspiration?
I would like to see this on the parts of the autobahn where a Tesla or other electric cars can reach their top speed. What drone is going to do 200kph and land smoothly, and if it does mean you need to slow down to a more sensible 100kph wich is the minimum I would still wan’t to see it land on the roof without damaging the car. Engineers and sensible thinking don’t seem to go hand in hand these days
No No No. Just No. Nah F this sht! The time is going to fast! I wanna go back in time when there were proper cars not this stupid electric sht
…So a mid air refueling then? That sounds pretty neat, though I imagine some thieving fellows might wait for the drone to land, then take it for themselves…same goes for delivery drones. But then again, these things have got tracking on them, I’m sure Amazon will just dispatch cops after the hijacker. Gee, I just answered my own question
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