# Wireless Electric Power Transmission

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wireless-electric-power-transmission/468727
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [October 20, 2008, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wireless-electric-power-transmission/468727 "2008-10-20T12:49:34Z")
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### Author: ![Simple\_Mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@Simple\_Mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Mind)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2008, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wireless-electric-power-transmission/468727/1 "2008-10-20T12:49:34Z")

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I read in a Popular Sience Issue from around 1950 to 1960 that they where developing a Car that would be feed trough the air with Electric Power, i also remember something about Tesla having used just such a car.  
What where the reason that they never were build?

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### Author: ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2008, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wireless-electric-power-transmission/468727/2 "2008-10-20T12:56:52Z")

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Uncle Cecil covered this is a column titled [What’s up with “Broadcast Power”?](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/934/whats-up-with-broadcast-power) Short answer: the technology either didn’t really work, or was horribly limited and inefficient.