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Originally Posted by AeroMcAeroFace
Taxi ranks and bus stops, older people and non-driveway parking are good examples, in the UK you need so many cables and connectors to unwind to park somewhere and charge, in the UK we have 13amp, 16amp connectors, chademo, j1772 connectors, type 2 connectors, type 2 + DC connectors, plus all the three phase types. Inductive would just be a case of parking and getting out, no forgetting to plug in.
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Plug in or induction you have to trench to get power to the usage point. You also need an interface to pay to charge. So it comes do to having a charging station with or without a plug and cable.
As for forgetting to plug in - when you drive an EV you don't forget to plug in. It becomes second nature. I didn't forget to plug in once in 39 months I leased an EV.
The OP was about using solar to make a normal non PHEV hybrid just a little bit more efficient. I don't think the economics work for that. Solar mounted on a car is never going to power a normal EV more than a few miles per day.