We recently brought to your attention that GM will introduce in-car wireless charging mats for mobile phones as an option from the third quarter of 2012. So imagine how cool it would be to do that with a car. The would be no more need for cables, sockets or extension cords to clutter you space. At the 2011 CES technology trade show in Las Vegas, Fulton Innovation showed just such a gadget wirelessly charging the king of electric performance vehicles, Tesla’s Roadster.
According to a The Next Web article, the eCoupled Powerspot works just like the wireless charging mats and could even provide you with an update on the charge level through a iPhone app. All you have to do is fit a special adapter to your electric car and park it about 4 inches (13 cm) above the induction pad (in the case of the Tesla).
“This is the first time in history that we’ve been able to wirelessly power a high-powered device,” said a rep at Fulton Innovation, the company behind the wireless technology. Since this system is somewhat bigger than what you’d use in order to charge up a smartphone, there are some other technical difficulties Fulton have had to overcome. One thing is for sure, future EVs will get much simpler to use on a daily basis if this technology reaches the mass market.
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