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ia a microwave beam from space to earth. So the idea is you could put big solar panels floating in space. It could gather up the electricity and shoot it to earth. And they had shown that they could do that on a small scale, and I said that that would be a big game changer if they could scale that up. Well, I mistakenly believed that Elon Musk agreed with my take, but it's actually the opposite.…
← Previous segment →eapon on the other team." Because although that microwave beam apparently is an inefficient way to carry electricity through the atmosphere, it might be just what you need to shoot down some kind of a threat from space. So even the press release on that might be a cover for something military maybe.
Speaking of charging things electrically over space, apparently Tesla just filed a patent on something that would allow you to charge your electric vehicle without plugging it in. So Tesla apparently has a plan which I believe will be applied to the Cybercab, which allegedly won't even have a charging port. So the idea is that the Cybercab maybe first, I don't know, will not need a port. If it gets close to something that's designed to work that way, it will wirelessly charge your vehicle.
Now, what I'm not sure about, but I saw some estimates that that would also apply to existing Teslas that have a charging port, but there might be some way to also wirelessly charge it. That part I don't know, but I think more reliably it's true that the Cybercab will be using it and not have a charging port. That's got to be the last thing that Tesla needed to make
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everyone buy one, because even though it might be 30 minutes to charge your car and it's not really hard to plug it in, wouldn't you like to not get out of your car? So with the current technology, you have to always get out of your car, right? Even if you're just plugging it in for an electric charge, that little bit of work where you have to get out of your car and the weather might not be idea…
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