[youtube]1WObC3AIN34[/youtube] Electric cars will soon be charged wirelessly.Electric cars need to be plugged into a power source with big, hunky cables, right? Not anymore. With the development of Inductive Power Transfer (IPT), electric cars could have the ability to be charged wirelessly, with the technology arriving in just a few years, tech development company HaloIPT announced in a statement.
HaloIPT claims it is the first company ever to market and bring IPT technology to electric cars, whereby electric vehicles recharge while parking over transmitter pads in the ground or even by driving over them.
A New Zealand startup with operations in the UK, HaloIPT said it will demo IPT at the Electric Vehicle Symposium (EVS 25) in Shenzhen, China later this week.
The company said it envisions a future where its transmitter pads are integrated into the road infrastructure and can power even the biggest and heaviest of trucks and buses, expanding widespread use of electric vehicles.
“We're making it easier, simpler and safer to own and charge an electric vehicle, while also ensuring that we keep costs down – our technology will not cost any more than the plug-in equivalent,” Anthony Thomson, CEO of HaloIPT, said in a statement.
"We're using IPT technology to finally break down the barriers to mass-market adoption of electric vehicles," Thomson said.
