Are you fed up carrying charging cables and searching for power sockets when you are out with your electric car? To erase the electric car blues, Volvo is working out in bringing the wireless charging system for the electric cars. The car giant is all set to launch a project that uses inductive charging. In this project, the charging plates would be buried under the road. Electric cars will get charged with the help of these charging plates while they are on the go.
Named Continuous Electric Drive, this pilot project by Volvo will be delivered to Volvo’s Belgian technology partner. Elucidating the project, Volvo said that the charging plates contain coils that generate magnetic field. It is through this magnetic field that the energy is transferred from plates to the cars without any physical contact. However, the energy that gets transferred would not be direct energy. The alternative energy produced by the plates would be converted into direct energy by the built-in voltage converter present in the car.
There are chances of a large number people switching to electric cars if this project comes to reality. However, to plant electric plates in the roads is not a cakewalk. It takes so much of time and also needs a nod from the government. Moreover, this project seems to be impossible in the countries like India, where roads are also not in a good condition till date. Nonetheless, if this project clicks, people can at least bury the charging plates in their compounds and charge their cars without the need of wire.
John Konnberg, project manager at Volvo Car Corporation said:
One aspect of this project is to integrate this technology into the road surface and to take energy directly from there to power the car. This is a smart solution that is some way into the future.
Source: Plug in cars
