Purdue University engineers, from left, John Haddock, Nadia Gkritza, Dionysios Aliprantis and Steve Pekarek stand in the lab where they are testing technology they designed to enable electric vehicles to receive power from the road. (Purdue University photo/Vincent Walter) (Photo provided)
In Tippecanoe County, Purdue University says construction was set to begin as soon as this week and continue into Fall, weather permitting, on a first-of-its-kind test-bed to develop wireless charging for electric vehicles (EVs) as they’re traveling at highway speeds. A quarter-mile stretch of U.S.231/U.S.52 in West Lafayette will be used for a system designed by Purdue engineers, highway pavement technology that would be akin to how newer smartphones use magnetic fields to wirelessly charge from a pad, Purdue said. A news release also said the hope is to “electrify a section of an Indiana interstate in the next four to five years.” The university says an electrified highway in Indiana would serve much of the nation’s traffic as eighty percent of the U.S. can be reached within a day’s drive from the state’s pass-through highways. Here is a link to read more.
