BMW has been working on that system for a couple years - BMW says that the prototype system has an efficiency of 90 percent and can charge the BMW i8 in less than two hours. To make the charger suitable for all electric cars instead of hybrids, the company is working on boosting the charge rate to 7 kW, which would charge a BMW i3 overnight.
http://newatlas.com/bmw-induction-charging/32863/ Rush Dougherty Tucson AZ 85719 > -----Original Message----- > From: EV [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lee Hart via EV > Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2017 9:48 AM > To: ROBERT; Electric Vehicle Discussion List > Subject: Re: [EVDL] Induction Charging > > ROBERT via EV wrote: > > Sounds likes induction charging the same as the EV1. New technology?? > > Actually, it sounds more like the Inductran inductive charging system that's been used for > industrial EVs for decades. Their system uses a big 60Hz transformer, cut it half, with one half > on the road and the other half in the bottom of the car. > > -- > Teaching children to program goes against the grain of modern education. > Just imagine the chaos if they learned to think logically, plan, create, implement, test, and > execute! > -- > Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, www.sunrise-ev.com > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
