If one of the most inconvenient problems electric cars remains unchanged and alwaysautonomy, the gas station takes the second place on the podium of inconveniences. Often slow, especially if you don’t want to spoil yourself with ultra-fast terminals, recharging unfortunately remains one of the big weak points of electric cars.

But the future has great things in store for us. At this very moment, technology induction charging on asphalt are at the testing stage. In Germany, this is a large-scale project that will even be launched by 2025!

Stellantis wants to charge electric cars using induction while driving

To charge your electric car using induction without having to go to a charging station is undoubtedly the dream of every “e-car driver”. Imagine a world where the battery charge level does not drop even while driving. Utopia? Not at all !

Stellantis seems to have achieved a breakthrough in this field with its technology DWPT (Dynamic wireless energy transfer). It is a system that works thanks to conductive coils placed under the asphalt, which transmit current directly to the vehicles, even while they are moving.

The technique can be adapted to all vehicles equipped with a “receiver” a special one that directly transfers the energy coming from the road infrastructure to the electric motor, thus increasing autonomy and saving the battery. Tests conducted onThe future arena in Italy demonstrated that the electric car is adapted accordingly, e.g Fiat 500e, can move at normal speed on the highway without consuming the energy stored in the battery. All the more impressive: the efficiency of energy flow from asphalt is comparable to the efficiency of fast charging stations!

In addition, measurements of magnetic field strength showed no negative impact on humans or the environment. At the moment, Stellantis does not announce the cost of routes equipped with inductive charging technology.

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Pilot test until 2025 in Germany

Researchers from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg have started a pilot project for inductive charging on roads. By 2025, a kilometer-long test track should be built on a section of the highway in northern Bavaria, on which induction charging of electric cars will be possible.

With this project, the researchers hope to test and improve processes for the large-scale production of induction paths. They also want to develop standards for the construction of future roads equipped with this technology. The test track represents an approximate cost 8 million euros anyway.