Imagine pulling up in a garage or parking lot in your nearly depleted EV, and having no pesky charging cables to fiddle with, no payment systems to navigate, and no charging apps to download. Just park and walk away. Researchers are taking wireless charging seriously, and one U.S. lab has achieved a breakthrough: 96% efficiency in a 100kW wireless charging test.
Tennessee-based Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the same lab at the forefront of atomic discoveries in the 1940s, and several other breakthroughs in supercomputing, materials sciences and energy storage, recently charged a Hyundai Kona Electric using electromagnetic waves with 96% efficiency.
