Are you too busy texting to bother plugging in and charging up your electric car? Not a problem! Now, there’s a hands-free, wireless electric vehicle (EV) charging technology called Plugless Power, and it is already in trials on some Nissan LEAF vehicles.
Wytheville, Virginia-based Evatran, a subsidiary of MTC Transformers, has successfully completed the first three installations of its Plugless Power technology with its partners, The Hertz Corporation, Duke Energy (News - Alert), and the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR). These installations, on Nissan LEAF vehicles, have created the first passenger electric vehicles in the world with full wireless charging capability.
Through what is ambitiously being called the “Apollo Launch Program,” launched in early 2012, six commercial partners in total will test wireless charging technology installed on either Nissan LEAFs or on Chevrolet VOLTs, in a variety of real-world applications. Installations on the LEAFs began in early June, and the systems will be tested over the next three months. An additional three installations will be completed in July with partners from California to Washington, D.C... Read More
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