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.