Washington Transit Agency Getting 10 Electric Buses & Wireless Charging
We have news this week of 10 new BYD electric buses headed to Link Transit in Wenatchee, Washington, and being equipped with Momentum Dynamics wireless charging tech.
We have news this week of 10 new BYD electric buses headed to Link Transit in Wenatchee, Washington, and being equipped with Momentum Dynamics wireless charging tech.
As long as I’ve been covering electric vehicles (nearly a decade) there’s been a debate in the industry about the potential for high-powered wireless charging.
Electric buses on urban routes started in 2018 in Wenatchee, Washington. That may not sound groundbreaking, but the special thing about it is Link Transit also chose wireless charging for those buses.
Oslo is installing high power wireless chargers for taxis in an effort to reduce carbon emissions in the city. It says all taxis will be battery electric by 2023.
An important new industry guideline for wireless power transfer technology and infrastructure — “SAE TIR J2954 Wireless Power Transfer for Light-Duty Plug-In/ Electric Vehicles and Alignment Methodology” — was recently approved for publication by SAE International, according to reports. The new guideline will reportedly be available on the SAE website … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. The wireless electric vehicle charging technology company Momentum Dynamics will deliver a 200 kilowatt (kW) wireless (inductive) charging system for the municipal bus market by the end of the year, going by recent comments made by company reps. The company’s CEO, Andrew Daga, recently commented … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. What do you say to the idea of a commercial wireless electric vehicle (EV) charging system that can recharge a battery as fast as one of Tesla’s Supercharger stations can? Does that sound plausible to you? While skepticism seems merited in this case, one of … [continued]
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The field of wireless electric vehicle charging may still be in its infancy, but Pennsylvania’s Momentum Dynamics believes wireless charging for EVs is the future – and we tend to agree! In a bid to secure their position as the dominant force in the industry most likely to relegate … [continued]