Charge Your Vehicle by Changing Lanes
Cornell aims to reduce greenhouse emissions by a considerable percentage with its inventive path towards the wireless charging of electric vehicles. The team strives to accomplish this by exploring a way to charge electric vehicles while in motion, aspiring to have a meaningful impact on the development of the infrastructure in the U.S. for decades to come.
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00:00:12 [Music] [Music] road transportation consumes about 23 percent of the total energy in the us and it contributes to about the same percentage in terms of greenhouse gas emissions so in terms of impact there's a potential of reducing the greenhouse gas emissions by
00:00:39 22 which was quite large what we've been working on is a way in which we can charge the electric vehicle while it is moving from the roadway and that way one we certainly can reduce the amount of batteries we need to get whatever range we want but also we can have
00:00:58 indefinite range because if we have charging ability on the road then the vehicle can keep moving and doesn't need to either stop or doesn't need to have a really large battery to go a long range it also saves time because now you don't have to stop to charge so you would in practice have a charging lane
00:01:16 where you'd have these charging pads on a repeated basis and as the vehicle goes over one it'll get charged and then it goes over the next and gets charged again when i started looking at this approach people had already started to work on magnetic field-based systems in fact you've probably seen these for
00:01:36 your cell phone for example what we've been working on is the underlying technology to get the full benefit this technology has to be deployed in the 1950s and 60s when the interstates were built that was a similar sort of infrastructure development but interestingly this is the right time
00:01:56 to do it because the infrastructure in the u.s is already aging both at the roadway level as well as the grid level and this is an opportunity where sort of the new infrastructure can be developed taking into account the new technologies that are available today and really make it ready for the next 50
00:02:15 to 100 years