Eco Factor: Portable charging stations to power electric vehicles wherever recharging is required.
Agreed that the whole concept of electric vehicles taking us to work fits in perfect harmony with the environment and our urban lifestyle, but imagine your batteries ditching you in a place where there is no charging station close by. Thinking of a similar scenario, researchers at the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in Cambridge, Massachusetts have come up with an ingenious idea of portable charging stations.
They have developed a network of movable charging stations, which can be taken to wherever the demand for recharging is greatest. The idea of the this unique charging station will be presented at the Vehicular Technology Conference in Ottawa, Canada next week. The mains will charge up these station at night and set out to work during the day.
How will it work? The in-car sensors would monitor the level of charge in the battery and periodically report this to a central operations center. This center will determine areas where most cars run low on power. After finding the low-charge hotspots, the roaming stations would be easily deployed to juice up the EVs. The researchers claim that just five of these mobile stations would be enough to serve 100 electric cars on a 100-kilometer stretch of highway.
Via: New Scientist
