{"id":106355,"date":"2020-05-01T18:24:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T01:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/can-electric-cars-on-the-highway-emulate-plane-to-plane-refueling"},"modified":"2020-05-01T18:24:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T01:24:12","slug":"can-electric-cars-on-the-highway-emulate-plane-to-plane-refueling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/can-electric-cars-on-the-highway-emulate-plane-to-plane-refueling","title":{"rendered":"Can Electric Cars on the Highway Emulate Plane-to-Plane Refueling?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-electric-cars-on-the-highway-emulate-plane-to-plane-refueling.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jet fighters can\u2019t carry a huge tank of fuel because it would slow them down. Instead they have recourse to air-to-air refueling, using massive tanker planes as their gas stations. If electric vehicles could pull off the same kind of peer-to-peer charging scheme it could eliminate range phobia and speed the adoption of EVs.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>On-the-road peer-to-peer charging depends on steerable booms to make the connection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jet fighters can\u2019t carry a huge tank of fuel because it would slow them down. Instead they have recourse to air-to-air refueling, using massive tanker planes as their gas stations. If electric vehicles could pull off the same kind of peer-to-peer charging scheme it could eliminate range phobia and speed the adoption of EVs. On-the-road [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}