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Charging EVs as they Travel on Highways

Purdue University engineers and the Indiana Department of Transportation are working to make it possible for electric vehicles big and small to wirelessly charge while driving on highways. Construction is in progress on a quarter-mile test bed on U.S. Highway 231/U.S. Highway 52 in West Lafayette that the team will use for testing. Watch this video to learn more.

“We’re developing a system that has the power to charge semitractor-trailers as they move 65 miles per hour down the road,” said John Haddock  , a professor in Purdue’s Lyles School of Civil Engineering.

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    00:00:00 I'm Steve perer I'm a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University so this Project's uh uh it's a pilot project to test a capability that we're exploring and that's electrified roadways providing power from a roadway to a vehicle with the goal of reducing the battery size uh and eliminating range anxiety if we can do

    00:00:25 those two things then we feel that the EV adoption will ES at it'll be attractive and you get all of the benefits associated with electric vehicle adoption reduced greenhouse gases and those type of particulates in addition you overcome challenges of batteries where we reduce the battery down considerably and so environmental issues associated with those batteries

    00:00:52 or costs associated with those batteries are greatly reduced within the roadway we place transmitter coil those are electrical conductors and we provide the power to those from the utility and uh that provides magnetic fields that when a vehicle that has a receiver over top of it uh sees those magnetic fields it provides that energy is transferred

    00:01:19 effectively from the transmitter to the receiver that can then be used by the vehicle's propulsion system or the battery [Applause] two [Applause]