Electric cars (like the Nissan Leaf) have one big problem right now – they need plenty of places to charge and we don’t have the infrastructure now. New Zealand firm Halo IPT plans to counteract that using the principle that you can charge a vehicle using electromagnetic fields – it’s Powermat and the Palm Pre charger meets Scalextric…
Halo IPT wants to embed inductive chargers into the roads. It claims that within two years it will have developed a $2000 charging station to stick in your garage. To charge your car, you’ll just need to park over the charging plate with motion sensors keeping your cats and dogs from getting fried.
The firm also has plans to put its electric car charging points beneath parking spots, bus stops and a load of other public places.
Halo IPT’s big future plan (for around 2020) is to bake inductive charging strips into motor ways. That’s where our Scalextric memory comes in – cars will speed along the future roads with a power strip running down its centre. Halo IPT claims its Scalextric roads will only cost 10% more than current ones.
Hit the comments and let us know: does the electric car get you charged up? Or are you still a Clarksonite petrolhead?
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