Cars will charge as they park – wireless?

1st October 201531st July 2015 by Chris

Wireless charging for electric cars inches closer to reality as Qualcomm continues to license its Halo inductive charging technology

Wireless charging could be a big breakthrough for electric vehicles, allowing drivers to top up their car’s batteries just by parking in the right spot. Qualcomm, which has fitted its Halo system of inductive chargers to Formula E course cars and other test vehicles, has announced a new deal with Swiss electric car parts maker Brusa, allowing the firm to develop, manufacture, and supply its Halo charging plates to other companies

There is already “Plugless” wireless charging for home use in the USA where the car automatically connects to the power supply, when you arrive, and starts to re-charge.

This is now just a case of watch this space; driving around with the electric car self charging as you go. And never that tedium of having to go to a petrol station, reful and get smelly, wasting time to fill up.

When streets have this facility it will not matter that the car has a very long range; it will be like your iPhone charging as you use it.

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Ecology : Electric Vehicles : Political notes and more

October 2015

Oslo, Norway’s capital, like most of the Scandinavian country’s cities and towns, boasts bus-lane access for electric vehicles (EVs), recharging stations aplenty, privileged parking, and toll-free travel for electric cars. The initiative began in the 1990s as an effort to cut pollution, congestion, and noise in urban centres; now its primary rationale is combating climate change. Today, Norway has the highest per capita number of all-electric [battery only] cars in the world: more than 100,000 in a country of 5.2 million people. Last year, EVs constituted nearly 40% of the nation’s newly registered passenger cars. Norway is the clear electric vehicle pacesetter in Europe, which now has about 500,000 electric vehicles.

And the Norwegian experiment shows every sign of accelerating. Earlier this year, Norway opened the world’s largest fast-charging station, which can charge up to 28 vehicles in about half an hour.

Hackney Council has installed the first publicly accessible on-street rapid charging posts for electrical vehicles in London, so increasing the charging options of EV users in the capital.
The three units, which are supplied by APT Technologies a leading innovator in EV charging solutions, are the very latest Tri-Rapid Chargers and are located in Shoreditch, Dalston and Hackney Central.

China leads the world in EV usage, with about 600,000 all-electric vehicles on its roads and an ambitious plan to deploy 5m EVs by 2020.

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Unusually high winds allowed Denmark to meet all of its electricity needs – with plenty to spare for Germany, Norway and Sweden too

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