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Using the Road to Power Electric Cars

Using the Road to Power Electric Cars

By Dan Gould on October 9, 2009

GOOD reports that a German company has received a patent for a road-to-car charging technology. A strip embedded in the road would wirelessly power up electric cars as they travelled over its surface. Sensors would activate the charging process only when an electric car was detected, and radio chips would identify cars for billing purposes.

[via GOOD]

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