wireless charging road2

Check out these posts

electric carselectric vehicles Detroit's Corktown

In-depth: America's first wireless electric charging road

The first wireless electric charging road in the United States – where, with the right equipment, you can drive on it and charge while moving – has opened in Detroit’s Corktown. Using technology by Electreon and deployed at Michigan Central, it seems only appropriate for this first quarter mile to be here. Me and Norris Howard discuss the technology, the implications, the possibilities, the challenges and more in this single-topic episode of your Daily Detroit. We’re not sure if this w...

electric vehiclesElectreon company Stefan Tongur

Detroit's electric road, explained (ft. Stefan Tongur)

What if while you drove, your electric car charged? Or if you parked to a run an errand, and instead of plugging in, your SUV topped up for 20 minutes all on its own while you went into the store? Detroit is soon getting the first mile of road that can charge an electric car in the country. But the project and the technology raises a lot of questions. How will this work? What happens if it rains? What about seasons? And more. To help answer them, I called up Electreon's Stefan Tongur in Los A...