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Porsche puts wireless EV charging into production

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pornel · 1789899943 · focus · HN ↗
Charging at home is already more convenient and quicker (in human time) than driving to a gas station, and now they're optimizing the 30 seconds it takes to plug the car in.
1. kotaKat · 1789900716 · focus · HN ↗
  And the funny thing is China's already picked up the dropped torches elsewhere; Xiaomi's going to be launching a robotic arm for your garage by the end of this year to plug in for you. Tesla gave up on their charging tentacle, but, wellp.
  <a href="https://carnewschina.com/2026/06/13/xiaomi-unveils-home-charging-robotic-arm-targeting-q4-2026-launch/" rel="nofollow">https://carnewschina.com/2026/06/13/xiaomi-unveils-home-char...
  1. quickthrowman · 1789915533 · focus · HN ↗
    Porsche’s induction charging strategy seems a lot smarter and much more reliable than a robot arm.
    dpark · 1789916986 · focus · HN ↗
    I don’t know. I’ve stopped using my wireless phone charger because it’s spotty. Sometimes it charges. Sometimes it doesn’t (or barely charges). Sometimes it wakes me up at night because it’s glitching in between charging and noncharging states and my phone feels the need to beep and wake me up.
    I’ve seen similar issues with multiple watch chargers. “Oh, it didn’t charge overnight again.”
    I’m not as sold on wireless charging as I once was.
    toyg · 1790120493 · focus · HN ↗
    It's also more energy-wasteful. Yes, it's efficient enough to be useful, but you will pay for the convenience.

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