First Electrified Roadway in the US Charges EVs While Driving

Get the 5-minute newsletter keeping 2M+ innovators in the loop: https://thehustle.co/ Last week, Detroit became the first American city to install an electrified roadway. While that might sound like something you would definitely not want to drive on, it’s actually a big step toward widespread EV adoption: - The wireless-charging roadway can charge EVs while driving, parking, or idling. - When an EV with a receiver nears the roadway, copper inductive charging coils beneath the road transfer electricity to the car through a magnetic field. - Electrified roads are safe for drivers, pedestrians, and animals. The new tech was created by Electreon, an Israeli company developing wireless-charging solutions for EVs. And Michigan’s $5.9m, quarter-mile experiment is the first of many: Electreon already has contracts for projects in Israel, Sweden, Germany, and Italy. To note: Most EVs currently can’t charge wirelessly, and would need receivers to do so — something the company is working with car manufacturers on introducing.