You will not need a charger.. a street that charges your electric car without the need to stop

The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT), Purdue University and German start-up Magment GmbH have joined forces to create a system that wirelessly charges electric vehicles as they drive.

These efforts led to the idea of ​​developing a street-first wireless charging part.

The press release issued by the entities developing the project stated that the project will be carried out in 3 phases, and the first two phases will include various forms of street testing, analysis and improvement research.

This work will eventually be conducted by the Joint Transportation Research Program (JTRP) at Purdue's West Lafayette campus.

Once these phases are complete, Phase III will see the Indiana Department of Transportation construct a test site that is at least a quarter-mile long.

Here, the team will test the concrete's capacity to ship heavy trucks operating at high power (200 kW and above).

Once all of these phases have been successfully completed, the Indiana Department of Transportation will begin using the new technology, built and refined during the above experiments, to electrify a portion of an as-yet-unidentified street in Indiana.

"This project is a real step forward towards the future of dynamic wireless charging," Magment CEO Mauricio Esguerra said in a statement.

He added that the project "will undoubtedly set a standard for affordable, sustainable and efficient transmission electrification."

The project is expected to begin later this summer.

Assuming its success, it would revolutionize the world of electric vehicle charging.

But if it doesn't, it's not the only wireless charging or power generation solution in action.

In December 2020, there was news of researchers devising a new way to make generating electricity as simple as walking down the street.

They did this by using piezoelectric materials.

The researchers used the concept of a "gradient gradient" - a method of applying different types of mechanical stress to a piezoelectric cantilever beam - to generate more energy from the material than previously thought.

And when it comes to the new Indiana project, it is still not clear what kind of technologies engineers plan to use to generate enough power to power electric vehicles, as not much information has been made available in this area.