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  • Dell did this on a laptop back in 2009 so why not in a car?https://phys.org/news/2009-09-dell-latitude-wireless-video.h...
    by ikyriakidis
  • I’m waiting for the "needs a $100-200/mo subscription" to unlock wireless charging headline.
    by xyst
  • They should have spent money on auto-pluggin charger, some kind of snake robot. Much cooler and environment friendlier
    by mrheosuper
  • I think the big market for this is self-parking.

    Telsa's are capable of both self-park and summon, but neither of these can charge the car without manual intervention.

    This is why you can't just let the car go in or come out of your garage at home, no charging.

    I could see it for restaurants or malls.

    (they have a solution for this for the cybercab, but it has a port in a different place and is not wireless)

    by m463
  • I want to know what mechanisms the car provides to ensure you're lined up to the mat correctly. Seems like a small target to hit.
    by ChiperSoft
  • This sounds like a great improvement actually, but Porsche should maybe first work on their own Porsche chargers at the Porsche dealerships to be working, make sure that their card / mobile app work with all chargers from all charger companies (I don't care if some contracts they have are more expensive, but I want to charge when I'm there), plugging in Porsche car should start charging automatically with any EV charger (Ionity always works better than Porsche chargers, so I go there).

    Also adding in sentry mode and dashcam support to all Porsches would be some basic security need when it already contains great cameras.

    Charging at home is already supere easy, that's never the part when I advise other people against owning an EV when they are asking me about it.

    by xiphias2
  • Charging at home is already more convenient and quicker (in human time) than driving to a gas station, and now they're optimizing the 30 seconds it takes to plug the car in.
    by pornel
  • “and claims a charging rate of up to 11 kW and with an efficiency of about 90% for easy overnight charging.”

    That’s a some 9kW lost on a 80kW battery. I get the convenience, but I think the best use for those would be when standardized and installed in public parking spots, for a brief charge bump, not to charge fully at home, e.g overnight, which is what Porsche aims for.

    by cromka

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