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Wirelessly Charging Up The Commute

13 Mar 2024 | Abstracted from Eurasia Review

"...Oak Ridge National Laboratory demonstrated that a light-duty passenger electric vehicle can be wirelessly charged at 100-kW with 96% efficiency using polyphase electromagnetic coupling coils with rotating magnetic fields.

"ORNL’s Omer Onar [explained the [technology reaches power densities 8-10 times higher than conventional coil technology and can increase battery charge state by 50% in under 20 minutes."

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