Self charging EVs

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Or, you know, charge at home.

That would be cool especially for apartment dwellers that don’t have access to a charger and constantly have to use superchargers.

Is the charger going to get hard and stick it in itself?

If you can sure ..

This guy assumes everyone has access to a place to charge overnight

So many things become possible. You could send the car to a drive through, rather than wait for UberEats. And once you have a Tesla humanoid robot in the car for going into places and buying things, the possibilities are endless.

This would have to go hand in hand with automated charging facilities like I've heard of in Japan. A single garage stall pops up out of the ground. Your car is taken in and put on robotic movers and elevators and a robot arm plugs in your car. And, here is a Tom Scott video. https://youtu.be/voYdl7IFZsM?si=0b8oP7ClDNeSz4Al

Tesla is working on this right now. The plan is to lay a wireless charging mat in the parking spots in front of each Supercharger. The mats would be wired into the supercharger for high power. Any vehicle parked in that charging spot could use either wireless charging or the existing supercharger cord. Wireless charging is expected to be a little less efficient than wired charging but would be fully hands free. A driverless vehicle, such as a robotaxi with a built-in under vehicle wireless charging adapter, would navigate to the super charger and back in positioning exactly over the charging mat. The vehicle would then wirelessly negotiate the fast charging rate and the mat would begin charging the vehicle. The charging cost would go to the card on file for that vehicle. The driverless vehicle would drive away when the charging session was complete.

This old house did a segment on charging pads a few years ago, great idea but hard to implement

Like that Southland Tales car commercial?

No, he assumes that such access will become more available when EVs become more widespread. That is a sensible assumption. The opposite assumption is not, but unfortunately extremely popular.

Optimus

That's just very inefficient. Much better for the grid to come up with a simple design for a roboplug (less complex than the Doc Oc tentacle from back in the day)

It will be great for people with disabilities. Most charging stations now have no attendant like gas stations.

Cheaper to fix charger accessibility. I've been thinking about that, if can commodify the hardware (gee, who would be good at that? LOL) and improve the situation with load management. There is plenty of money out there in a) government match, b) carbon credits, and c) Virtual Power Plant/Demand Response…. With efficiencies maxed out, those could pay for installation, and make installation free to the consumer. As for self charging, a few thoughts. #1 I could see that happening in sites that are automated charging only. The robot arm that places the charge cord can't be interacting with humans, matter of time before the robot arm kills a little girl or senior. And #2 at that point just do large plate inductive charging, big coil on the bottom of the car, car positions itself right on a big coil in the parking spot which then aligns and rises to touch the bottom of the car.