There are a lot of cool smart highway designs going around, but Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde and Heijmans Infrastructure just made me want to jump in the electric car and hit the road. This smart highway design not only charges your car, but it will light the road, show you the weather … [continued]
E-Moss is testing an electric bus that was equipped with a wireless charger, It is usually electric cars that are equipped with these, but buses could also benefit too. The type of charger the bus is equipped with is an induction charger. Induction chargers operate by using inductors to … [continued]
Market research forecasts are almost never correct, but decent ones do give a good sense for how things are likely to change in various industries. I’ve found that Pike Research does a pretty good job of conducting cleantech market research reports. Its latest is on the growth of electric vehicle … [continued]
Plugless Power is the wireless electric vehicle charging system developed by Evatran and currently being trialled at a variety of locations in the US, including two new installations at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) and at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. Evatran announced the completed … [continued]
Previously on CleanTechnica, Breath on the Wind covered the fascinating and exciting potential of wireless electric vehicle charging. In particular, he examined the wireless EV technology being developed by Masahiro Hanazawa at Toyota Central R&D Labs and Takashi Ohira at Toyohashi University. Now, there’s a bit more news on … [continued]
Evatran, which produces Plugless Power, a wireless electric vehicle (EV) charging system, opened its online reservation system last week and announced that it is offering a $150 rebate card for up to 6 months of free electricity to customers who use the system. “The Preferred Customer Group will allow Evatran … [continued]
Pushing the introduction of electric cars was always going to require easier methods of charging, and a new trial initiated by Qualcomm Incorporated will make London the home of the first Wireless Electric Vehicle Charging (WEVC) trial. The pre-commercial trial is expected to start early 2012 and will see Qualcomm … [continued]
Google is testing wireless recharging of electric cars at its headquarters in Mountain View, from Virginia-based Evatran, which has developed the memorably named PluglessPower – maybe they’ll drop the other name if PluglessPower takes off.
