Well done Disney. Wire free charging.

WiFi charging is not new. It was discovered by Tesla, (the 18th century scientist not the electric car company that pinched his name), patented by Faraday over 100 years ago. Advances now make it feasible. I predicted years ago that this principle would be developed into practical technology. Next step, no need for batteries! Power picked up from WiFi.  Electric cars, no cables. Power picked up in the road. In years to come we'll laugh at these silly cables for charging cars for hours.

Electric con trick

electric cars are the future but while our power is mostly  generated by fossil fuel were kidding  ourselves they're green. What we really need is solar power and fuel cell powered cars. The only need water/hydrogen for fuel. Solar power can make hydrogen during daylight supplemented by a dose of hydrogen when needed. The  fuel cells convert it to power giving off water. No pollution.  When we switch to electric what's HMG going to do to fill the blackhole in its fuel duty?

Electric cars are NOT green!

Why do governments promote electric cars, electricity – where does it come from? Power Stations, the majority are not green either.

Cars, electric near the cold arctic circle ought to be more efficient, the colder it is the better for electrical conductivity – no resistance at absolute zero!!

These cables for charging are as passes as landlines for phones, what you want is induction not Cables

The real green fuel is Hydrogen. Fuel  cells. run on hydrogen to produce power not batteries. 

Finally at one thought, HMG subsidising electric cars, what’s HMG going to do for revenue when we stop buying fuels and paying the enormous Duties on a  litre?

Why can't Electric cars be Solar powered and run on Water?

I've said it before Electric Cars AREN'T GREEN.

Read up on Carnot's Cycle. Where does most of the electricity come from?

BUT, if they could run on Water? Use solar powered cells to create Hydrogen then use it in Fuel Cells to Generate Electricity - BINGO - clean Solar powered Electric cars.

Driverless Cars?

Some may say that's the problem. Too many cars these days don't have drivers at least people driving that have a mind hence Driverless.

Seriously when I first started using SatNav it occurred to me that if it could be hooked up to a computer controlling the car it could take you from A to B. However it needs very good GPS tracking down to feet, otherwise where would the car go. Delivery drivers use their SatNavs and can't find us. They are a couple of miles off and ave to ring us "where are you?"they say. How would that work if the car  was driving?

Free Fuel?

What i would invent is a car powered by water.

 Don't laugh.

Electric cars are ok but limited mileage huge heavy batteries won't help and they're expensive and environmentally unfriendly.

What i'd do is use solar energy fuel cells to create hydrogen from water. This could be stored not as a gas but as a livid in a foam using a form of absorbent catalyst. Then to drive it would be a hydrogen powered turbine generating electricity to power the car. Small batteries to provide starting etc. Hydrogen produces water when burnt recycled to be used again! Simple.

Just haven't perfected it yet.

Electric Mayhem

SO good idea Boris's Electric Cars, pity that Electric Cars have stalled across the country.

Charging points are so and few between the Electric Car will only be useful for short distance commuters, and those that do venture out afar have to take numerous cables because there is no standard. What we all need is the "Magnetic Induction" charging system.  They use it in Europe and also on Milton Keynes for Electric buses.

Its ridiculous that in this wealthy country we have developed this system. It will be seen as ridiculous in years to come. 2054 "oh and in 2014 they actually had to connect their cars with a cable to charge them, What a ridiculous idea and the Health and safety implications eh! Ha Ha ha!" Just like now when last century we had Gas lamps.The technology can be put under parking bays anywhere or even on the open road. Imagine stopping at the lights and getting charged up! Of course it wouldn't be free but to get a charge you maybe had some sort of metering like using a sat nav.
See this - Last year, South Korea switched on a 12km (7.5-mile) road which can recharge electric vehicles as they drive over it, without the need for vehicles to stop at all. Two public buses are using the Online Electric Vehicle system, or OLEV, in the South Korean city of Gumi.

The technology means the vehicles can be fitted with smaller, lighter batteries, reducing the amount of power required to drive them.

Come on Cameron and Osborne use the Green levy for something really useful, bring us into the 21st Century and eliminate Petrol/Diesel cars!

Push electric cars

No not literally - the Government is trying to promote electric vehicles.

Lets face it  - who wants to pay £25k for a little car that only goes less than 100miles before you need to charge it, Where do you charge it?

Who can afford a £25k car?

Buy a £15k car and then you've got £10k to spend on f uel. Even at todays prices that goes a a long way!

At £1.40 a litre and 50mpg that woudl get you 350000 miles. Even at 35000 miles a year that would take you 10years motoring.

So next, I said yesterday the lights will goi off soon so how do you charge your electric car? Whene every home has one, that will drain the grid even more.

Then the Governments daft isdea is charging points every where. Imagine it - Electric bollards all along the streets.

• Cables going to each car.
• A Health and Safety nighmare. 
• That's assuming the Vandals don't cut your cable, or worse.
• Someone may trip over the cable and sue you. Forget its plugged in and drive off. 
• Who's going to lay the cables to the bollards. 
• Who's going to pay for the electricity?

Now lastly in a few years cables to cars will be as old hat as the Landline phone is now. We all have mobiles! Technology exists now to charge cars remotely like WiFi. Yes the cables need laying in the roads, but all you need is top park over it and the car charges. they can even be in the road providing power while you drive. A pilot scheme is running Europe for this already

Usual story Britain is years behind.

Wait and see. Monty told you first.