Hybrid maglev/hovercraft

Hovercraft are, for certain people of a certain vintage, a seriously cool mode of transport. However, they are clearly also from an age where energy was expected to become "too cheap to meter" in the near future and they are also really noisy. I find the latter particularly irksome. You may also be aware that I've tried to fix this problem in various ways on here. My latest thought is to combine magnetic levitation with an air cushion.

The energy required to power a hovercraft is considerable compared to other forms of transport. However, active or passive maglevs are similar in some respects. By active maglev I mean a vehicle with linear induction motors pushing itself along electromagnetic tracks, perhaps buried, and by passive I mean a vehicle which simply has magnets in it which are pushed along by either rail-based or buried linear induction. There are also active and passive ways of producing air cushions - a surface of jets pushes an air hockey puck around whereas a fan or propellor generates an air cushion under the skirt of a vehicle.

What I suggest, then, is this: Combine both active and passive maglev and air cushion generation on roads and other surfaces, thereby reducing the energy use of an air cushion vehicle and therefore also the noise generated, particularly in built-up areas. Also, allow the vehicle to recharge batteries from the currents in the road while travelling in those areas. Make the propulsion system hybrid. Then, when the vehicle needs to leave a powered surface it will have more usable energy than it would otherwise have had, and can switch over entirely to hovercraft mode.