Detroit is now home to the country’s first chunk of road that can wirelessly charge an electric vehicle (EV), whether it’s parked or moving.

Why it matters: Wireless charging on an electrified roadway could remove one of the biggest hassles of owning an EV: the need to stop and plug in regularly.

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    1 year ago

    Not wireless. Overhead contact lines are wires they just skim along them.

    Comparison for this would be a metal brush dragging the ground over electrical contacts to maintain connection. Which would be a third rail on roads, very dangerous.

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        1 year ago

        … Yes there is in trains. Not in wireless charging. I was correcting your comparison.

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          Electric trains gather energy by running a conductive element along suspended wires. No connection made.

          Wireless chargers charge devices through induction, in which a coil of wire produces a magnetic field, inducing a current in the wire coil in your device. Both have wires, neither make connections, we call both wireless.