Lets say I go to the Mall and need to charge while there.
Schedule a charging with the station by phone. When its time, the station sends a signal to the car which in turn wakes up and heads for the station (safety pilot option). It backs up and attaches (like some vacuum cleaners). When the charging is done, it detaches and finds the closest parking space. The car notifies you where its parked via your phone and shuts down after you verify you got the message. Dont have a phone! Do it they way its being done now.
Alternatively, it calls you 10 min before charge is done so you can get to it. If it your looking at a 10 to 20 minutes, then this would not be needed. Just wait.
Its the Jetsons! Ok. ITs not going to happen. But no harm done by asking 😎
this is something aptera can do with Zeta group https://www.aptera.us/forum/general-discussions/can-aptera-join-zeta an others, and its marketable for pretty much any type of common car:
with for areas where parking land expensive, especially as people are moving into compact cheaper cities rather than suburbs, to make parking cheaper and integrate automatic charging with programmable charging times and selling extra battery charge rather than losing it to battery degradation. this sytem car only requires from users a software phone app that connects to cars computer, which can be set up once via simple wiring or even set up via a online/Bluetooth software upload for newer cars. apps to interact with cars computer already exist for normal cars. this app can set what type of charging method and when to charge, so a car that only needs 30 mins of charging b/c owner only drives as much, it will start charging 30 mins before user schedules to drive someplace else, saving user energy bill. if user has unneeded energy in car, car can send to to teh grid and energy provider or people of building itself pays to be able to save on energy bill, saving more money.
cars can park on walls by driving up a rail via partial self parking, and teh rail can hold the car in place, even carry it totally off of the ground if it pays to do so, to decrease parking space cost (by allowing other cars like emergency vehicle like firetrucks, ambulance etc to drive through a space rather than having teh space filled with cars sitting on their wheels. this is often mandatory stuff under local laws.). this could also potentially make use of the wall surface area of a building to store cars on walls, and the grid of rails allow horizontal movement of cars can be done via gears shifted into a different position via steering wheel (steering is already steer by electronics b/c of driving assist/self driving systems in normal cars) to change harnessing of torque from moving car vertically to moving car horizontally across teh wall. it may pay to have contemporary devices that change gears for older cars that dont have steer by electronics. cars can lift their selves onto the roof to sit there too, usually roofs arnt used for anything besides solar and normal HVAC outlets. cars could sit vertically but it may pay to have them sit horizontally and have a layer of cars over the first layer of cars instead to decrease need of stability of cars during strong winds. its easier to stack on roofs horizontal surface rather than stacking onto a wall b/c more inherent structural support of horizontal surface.
the charging system would be integrated into the rail system via the system mentioned in my comment above with something like thishttps://www.fastcompany.com/90604895/how-to-get-free-ebooks-kindle-library . there can also be allowance for user to use normal charging ports if their car doesnt have charging via surface plate, such system may be obsolete if these surface plate magnet charging systems are efficient enough b/c it covneint to not have carry cables and remember to plugin, so using normal ports should utilize already existing models into the system so they are cheaper and ready to rid of when time comes.
@pvsmaine That's fine, since with Aptera, inductive charging would still be 110% as efficient as plug-in charging any other EV.
OTHER cars need this much more. As noted above, charging is much less important for an Aptera, actually about 60% less.
Someone suggested a 120v outlet should be required at every parking space. I happened to notice many curbside outlets* in downtown BigBear! In 8 hours of work OR sleep that fully recharges the average US daily drive even in an inefficient current EV.
* Also many in a huge free nearly-vacant parking lot, & lots of 240s there too.
Good to hear. Personally, I want my Aptera ASAP! The faster the reservation list builds, the more funding Aptera will receive, the faster they can proceed getting them out the door! No more delays.... the time is NOW!
We’re just passing time here. Not waiting for robots
I think the value behind the robots placing and moving charge units is one solution to having a limited number of fixed chargers blocked by charged cars and owners having to wait and return to monitor charging and move once charged. The new idea is to have everyone park and stay while the robots go up and down the aisles charging as needed.
Good to know, and also disappointing. I had hoped people had learned to live the Star Trek lifestyle somewhere on earth.
Leave it to the Japanese. I was watching a tour of some Japanese cities on my friend's new 4K TV, and their cities look like the modern city of the future. No graffiti, clean, shining, ultra modern. I admire their culture.
You just park in a parking lot and the robots charge the cars as needed.
Just as a rhetorical note, and not as a suggestion for inclusion, the Japanese already have a robot that approaches the car, tells it to open the charge port and plugs into the port and charges the vehicle.
People still go to malls?😂
I expected a lot of "You cant do that" comments and reasons why you can't.
I agree. Their priority now is to get something shipping Doing it as an upgrade sounds good to me. I'm no longer young 😂 so if I get one, there may not be a 2nd purchase. For me, I doubt I would even have much use for it. My day trips are much less than 40 miles and not every day.
This feature is something that I think all EV's will have at some point. So, stick it on the to do list. I imagine that most or all of this will be simply purchased from a subcontractor and fitted into the existing body. So a little think ahead may be useful to the team.
My thoughts exactly - get the #APTERA out to the public and generate profit/income. Create/Upgrade to version 2 and sell. Create version 3 and sell. That is how almost everybody operates! If #APTERA listen to ALL suggestions and wish es it will NEVER make the market.
Absolutely. I like a lot of the ideas in the forum, but the most important thing right now is to get to market and generate some revenue. Add the doodads later.
Add this feature later. Ship Aptera NOW! BTW, the wireless charging standard is J2954 and room on the car belly to add this would be a great idea so don’t put cooling tubes there. https://youtu.be/6qoHCMy-laA
I don't think that is too much to ask, or far off. The induction charging comment is the way to make that happen.
Much easier to accomplish with cordless induction charging.