Korea constructs road that charges buses.

[Wright]

An electric bus that charges its batteries while driving (rather than while sitting idle in a charging station) is no longer science fiction.

Researchers at Korea’s Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) recently constructed a seven and a half mile stretch of asphalt roadway in the city of Gumi in South Korea with specialized electric cables designed to power batteries on a moving passenger bus.

The first of it’s kind technology doesn’t need the vehicles to stop at a point to charge.

The bus’s batteries are equipped with a novel technology called “Shaped Magnetic Field In Resonance” that sends electromagnetic fields created by the electric cables buried in the asphalt to the bus but not normal cars.

The technology recognizes vehicles capable of accepting the electric charge and those that cannot.

A coil in the battery can turn the electromagnetic fields into electricity at a distance of more than half a foot above the road.

Korea Constructs Road That Wirelessly Charges Moving Electric Buses - Forbes

 

[Al Bhatti]

More that 10 years back i had a concept in my mind.

An electric car that charges on the move. How?

For example something like how the radiator fan turns while the car is moving and the engine is kept idle. That can be used to generate electricity while the car is moving. Also if some sort of small wind turbines are placed on top of the car which works due to the wind when a car moves above a certain speed and generates electricity.

When the car is stuck in a jam or not moving the electricity in the batteries are used and when the car moves the battery are kept fully charged until the car stops again and at that time the stored power in the batteries are used. In this way an electric car can drive longer distances.