Qualcomm and Renault demonstrated its feasible to charge electric vehicles moving at highway speeds of 100 km/h (62 mph) at a small 100 m (328 ft) test track outside of Paris. A pair of Renault Kangoo EV parcel vans equipped with a pair of inductive coils underneath their frames made multiple runs down the specially engineered track that technicians assembled as part of a €9m project mostly funded by the European Commission to explore the "technological feasibility, economic viability, and socio-environmental sustainability" of wireless dynamic electric vehicle charging (DEVC).

Qualcomm isn't the only group researching in-road wireless charging. The Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology deployed a similar system called OLEV in South Korea in 2013 to charge two electric buses providing transit services between the train station in Gumi and the town of In-dong.

As you, no doubt, can imagine, while it's now technically feasible to wirelessly charge EVs moving down a road or highway, as opposed to "statically" charging them, which Pazol says will first shortly appear in a Mercedes model, cost is a huge barrier. He sees real world implementation being yet sometime in the future. In this 27-minute interview he discusses the challenges still facing DEVC and where it might first be deployed.

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