By the looks of it, you’ll soon travel down electric avenue just to charge your EV and kiss the plug-in part goodbye
That is if a series of initiatives aimed at building roads which allow dynamic battery charging for cars passing on them will prove successful.
The latest such plan comes from Renault, as the French carmaker announced it teamed up with Qualcomm and Vedecom to demonstrate dynamic wireless electric vehicle charging (DEVC, in short).
With a charging capacity of up to 20 kW at speeds of 100 km/h and above, the system was tested using Renault Kangoo Z.E. driving over a special 100-meter test track.
In recent years, the UK, Honda and other entities in the automotive industry have been looking the explore the benefits of dynamic wireless electric charging via roads that have their own electromagnetic field.
Keeping an eye on the doability potential of DEVC is FABRIC (as in FeAsiBility analysis and development of on-Road chargIng solutions for future electriC vehicles) a €9 million project, partly EU-funded, that brings together the efforts of 25 partners – automakers, suppliers, and service providers working to decide if DEVS could provide a future solution to EV range extension.