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I wonder if one day highways will have wireless power transfer that can meter you as you go.

With the added bonus of being ice free in winter due to the losses?

At least it will provide a nice warm refuge for the local wildlife...

Germany is building a wired one on A1 (5km length). Overhead contact line for trucks and looks ugly: http://www.thedrive.com/news/13448/germany-to-install-overhe...

I'm getting a wall:

    No Access
    The web page you were trying to visit is not accessible in your country.

Lithuania (Europe) here. Is this GDPR thing or something more?

I am in UK and it's all fine.

FWIW I can view the site in Israel.

The article has this Youtube video embedded, which shows the overhead contact lines:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8l9ieoIazc

No problem from Germany. Interesting, why would they block Lithuania?

No problem from Latvia. But there are plenty of articles if you search for "germany ehighway"

How are overhead lines any more ugly than a sprawling freeway?

Well in my country, they try to hide electrical lines by burying them. When some works are there and there are air electrical lines, they usually do just that.

They are working on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNQPikt13Lk&t=3m14s

I would be happy with a pantograph-style sliding contact on the roof!

So a trolleybus[0], but for personal vehicles?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybus

I dream of wireless charging on the way. Hopefully, not too far into future.

Ubeam.com have made it possible. On a smaller scale though

ubeam is well known to be nonsense. They can't even charge phones or transmit any meaningful amount of energy.

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