In South Korea, researchers at Korea’s Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have come up with an electric bus that charges its batteries while driving (rather than while sitting idle in a charging station)—an idea that is no longer science fiction! Scientists have constructed a seven and a half-mile stretch of asphalt roadway in the city of Gumi in South Korea with specialised electric cables designed to power batteries on a moving passenger bus. This is the first-of-its-kind technology that doesn’t need the vehicles to stop at a point to charge. The bus’s batteries are equipped with a novel technology, “Shaped Magnetic Field in Resonance,” that sends electromagnetic fields created by the electric cables buried in the asphalt to the but, but not normal cars. The technology recognises 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. The future of transportation will be driven by strong desires for personal freedom and people’s need to gain control over lifestyles that are moving faster and faster. Transport needs to be able to keep up. - See more at: justmeans/blogs/the-future-of-transport-is-no-longer-sci-fi#sthash.w8hdEmA9.dpuf
Posted on: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 22:35:56 +0000
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