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ok_dad

Let’s waste precious energy to save 30 seconds twice a day. A remote control is apples to oranges here.

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Time is more precious then energy for a great number of people. Which includes a lot of Porsche drivers I'm guessing.

Well they’re paying for their extra time with the destruction of our planet we rely on to survive so fuck em

Still a hell of a lot better than the twin turbo V8 that's in the high-end gas Cayenne

Maybe your remotes run on fairy dust but the rest of ours run on alkaline batteries.

The losses from this charger are nearly the same as the losses from a wired charger.

It’s a 10% loss in addition to the normal losses

That's not what's written in the article.

The article is very much not clear if that 90% is talking about round trip or just the efficiency of the wireless charging in addition to the usual charging losses.

Applying a little common sense with experiences of other wireless chargers, its most likely just the losses of the wireless charging solution.

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