Apple working on self-driving car wireless charging technologies

radarthekat

beowulfschmidt said:

For a company seeking to be known as "green", Apple sure is getting into the comparitively energy wasting wireless charging thing pretty heavily.

My thoughts exactly.  You’d want the charger coil completely surrounded by the receiver coil, in all three dimensions.  Once you do that you may as well simple make direct metal to metal contact (plug it in).

gatorguy

StrangeDays said:

gatorguy said:

AppleExposed said:

beowulfschmidt said:

For a company seeking to be known as "green", Apple sure is getting into the comparitively energy wasting wireless charging thing pretty heavily.

 Depends where the energy comes from. I remember years back reading that Apple has a large reservoir of green energy collected by solar.

As far as i know only one of the huge US techs has so far achieved 100% sourcing of renewable energy for consecutive years and it is not Apple.  

O rly?

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/04/apple-now-globally-powered-by-100-percent-renewable-energy/

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a19746117/apple-100-percent-renewable-energy/

@StrangeDays ;
 Yes, Oh, really.
https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/100-percent-renewable-energy-second-year-row/
"We’re the first organization of our size to achieve 100 percent renewable energy two years running, but just as important as reaching our goal is how we did it."

edited July 2019