We’ve seen wireless charging, we’ve even seen in-road charging – but we haven’t seen anything like this. In a world’s first dynamic wireless charging trial on a 1.5 km stretch of road, four vehicles were able to charge at up to 300 kW!
Last week, four lightly modified battery electric vehicles – a semi truck, a box van, a passenger car, and bus – drove across a mile-long stretch of France’s A10 outside of Paris in a real-world test of a new wireless charging system’s performance. The result? The new wireless charging tech being co-developed by Electreon and Wireless and Vinci Group could transfer more than 300 kW of peak power (and more than 200 kW of average power) to the vehicles as they drove.
In case you missed it – that’s nearly as fast as the very latest Tesla Superchargers, without wires and without stopping.
Electreon says that, by deploying high-speed, in-road wireless charging in strategic locations along a transit bus fleet’s route in Tel Aviv, Israel, pilot project, they were able to reduce the size of the bus’ batteries from 400 kWh to about 45 kWh – a nearly 90% reduction in battery size, weight, and material needs without compromising uptime.
No word yet on next steps for this high-speed wireless charging tech.
Electrek’s Take
By proving that battery electric vehicles of all sizes can co-exist on a single stretch of charging road AND gain a meaningful number of miles of range in just a minute or two of driving, the Electreon and Vinci Group teams have proven that the technology is at least potentially useful. And, since you can’t insulate against magnetism, would work in snow, ice, or rain without putting operators and drivers at risk of slip and fall, or exposing the chargers to situations that could lead to excessive corrosion.
Besides, anything that makes it easier to charge an EV is worth celebrating.
SOURCE | IMAGES: Vinci Group.
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