Detroit recently celebrated another milestone in automotive innovation by installing the nation’s first electrified wireless-charging public roadway for electric vehicles.
The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) and the city of Detroit opened the segment of 14th Street in Detroit’s Michigan Central as a “mobility innovation district,” per Axios. The roadway will enable EVs to charge their vehicles without stopping to plug them in.
The city will use the quarter-mile stretch of road to test out and perfect the wireless-charging technology Electreon installed in a “real-world environment” before the technology becomes publicly available in the following years.
