Alt TextA screenshot of a post showing a red pickup truck with a mechanical arm structure attached to its bed, holding a magnet in front of a metal plate mounted on the front bumper, titled “Okay explain why this wouldn’t work”. Below, a comment from the official Volkswagen account reads “We sent this to the engineering department and they blocked us on teams.”

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[–] 3 points 1 month ago

The boom is actually a device which attaches the magnets to the ground. The front plate is also a powerful electromagnet which can adjust its own field to be attracted to and then repelled by the spiked, stationary magnets.

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