Many challenges must be overcome to fully move drivers worldwide to electric vehicles. One of the biggest challenges is the infrastructure of charging. We must build enough chargers to support everyone having an electric vehicle and increasing the speed of charging. Like that, the full cost for some electric vehicles takes hours.
Many car makers and researchers see the potential of electrical charging in the future using highways that can charge eVs such as drives. While it might sound like science fiction, Italy is set to get the first charging highway for electric vehicles. The road will be deployed in a stretch of road in northern Italy. This system was developed by companies from Israel called wireless electreon.
The technology developed by the company allows charging EV batteries when the vehicle drives along the road built specifically with electrification equipment embedded inside. The first test for the system is happening in Italy on a stretch of highways along the kilometer that runs between Milan and Brescia. Electreon is building infrastructure to expand the highway by installing copper rolls under the asphalt.
The energy of the roll will be properly transferred to the vehicle battery when rolling on the road using magnetic induction. The charging system requires a control unit to be placed on the side of the road and the recipient installed in the chassis of each vehicle participating in the trial. If the trial is successful, it can mean fewer electrical charging stations and there is no need to stop and plug it in the future.
If all the main roads can be equipped with this technology at some point in the future, it can mean the end of waiting to charge an electric vehicle. Electric roads can also mean eliminating one main obstacle to EV adoption throughout the world.