Catenary system

We should really look to go back to catenary systems. I say this because we could lower the cost of Electric vehicles by producing electric vehicles with less batteries which is the highest cost of the vehicle. The up front cost of the catenary system would be higher but it would get rid of range anxiety of electric vehicles as well. The way you would structure it would be through taxes and union jobs would be created as it would be something where we as a society choose which streets need catenary systems. If we did it we could look at switching the highways over for range anxiety issues and it could fund itself. You connect to the catenary you pay for through electricity costs and some type of tax that covers the cost of infrastructure and covers the cost of the streets you are on similar to the gas tax we already have in most states. This would be helpful in developing countries as well as it could provide a way to get electricity to places that don’t have electricity and start to create jobs that aren’t back breaking work. These catenary systems would use copper overhead which is abundant and fairly cheap. It would be more efficient from an energy usage stand point than the ICE engines we currently use and it would be fairly similar to the energy efficiency of the EV’s. It would probably be the same or better depending on if you are using the energy directly or charging. If we did this, truckers would be able to carry more around too since the problem with EV semi trucks is the weight of the batteries needed. Another aspect of this is we could begin to look at changing some of these roads to high speed rail with these systems. It’s a small set of infrastructure that could be built and reused for later. Although It probably wouldn’t work as well as we would have to figure out a way to grade separate the High speed rail, it could happen with cement dividers which would probably be helpful. I feel as though this is probably the better way to go in the long run, switching to a catenary system and using the EV infrastructure. We already have to keep building cars but just put less batteries in each one to lower the cost. The macro economics of it is much harder in terms of velocity of money across the world but from an internal company perspective it's probably a better way to go. If you wanted to look internationally , probably look at letting the individual EV's be built by the Middle East countries and maybe the Americas build the catenary trolleys or buses. With the countries who currently make ICE engines to keep making them and keep that structure as they would go last in the transition. Probably in the end we use ICE engines for racing since they are no longer needed in airplanes as we’ve mostly moved to jet engines for airplanes. I guess this is another subject and I’ll write about that another time.