Wireless charging for electric vehicles

A New Zealand company has launched wireless technology that allows parked or moving electric vehicles to charge automatically.

Auckland UniServices Ltd and Ove Arup & Partners own UK based HaloIPT, which has produced IPT (Inductive Power Transfer) technology enabling vehicles fitted with a receiver pad to charge automatically when parked over transmitter pads buried into the ground.

The press release gave no information on the frequencies the system would be using or any indication of how much radio interference they may cause.

Read the Scoop news story at
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1010/S00905/
nz-company-launches-first-wireless-electric-cars.htm

YouTube HaloIPT video Inductive Power Technology - IPT - Wireless charging for electric vehicles

HaloIPT
http://www.haloipt.com/

A collection of videos of Wireless Power Transfer can be seen at http://wn.com/inductive_transfer

Southgate 2006 - HF Radio used by Wireless Power System
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/november2006/
wireless_power_system.htm

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