EV CONTACTLESS RECHARGING TECHNOLOGIES BEING DEVELOPED FOR MARKET WORLDWIDE
June 2nd, 2020
THE NEED to actively recharge electric vehicles makes them less attractive to consumers, especially when batteries can take eight hours to charge. So, the development of ambient technologies that enable EVs to charge themselves as they operate has been a key focus of automotive R&D. Progress is being made and new tech is approaching commercialisation.
Boston, USA-based WiTricity Corp, is one company developing such tech. It delivers charges through magnetic fields, using ‘resonant coupling’, where a source pad (which can be installed on the floor of a ...
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