Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es

Here’s a few ideas I had to make electric cars better.

Firstly, we should give electric cars dedicated lanes. As these vehicles need to be promoted over fossil fuelled counterparts, giving them their own lanes makes them seem more exclusive.

Secondly, we could then outsource the electrical power to an overhead cable system, and each car could have a pickup.

This would mean each car would then become lighter as they wouldn’t need batteries. Plus we could drive even more power to each vehicle, therefore increasing the efficiency.

Thirdly, we should replace the low-resistance rubber tyres on electric vehicles with steel, and lay “tracks” in their dedicated lanes.

Now, with all these out of the way, we have made these vehicles much more efficient. Therefore we have capacity to actually make these vehicles bigger so they can carry more people. This would make them EVEN MORE efficient because now each vehicle is carrying more people per kW of electricity used, now that we have outsourced the power supply.

In fact, this leads to another efficiency: we could link these larger electric vehicles together, and only the lead vehicle needs to have a driver, freeing up the other drivers. This reduces the overall drag on the vehicles in a “chain” thereby making it EVEN more efficient to drive.

Any takers on my idea? We can call it an “steelroader” due to the steel tracks involved.