Topic summary
Wireless Charging
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Inductive charging.
Dynamic charging
Wireless charging of an electric vehicle while driving is known as "dynamic wireless charging" or "dynamic wireless power transfer", DWPT. The first working full-scale DWPT prototype is generally regarded to have been developed at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1980s and 1990s. The first commercialized DWPT system, Online Electric Vehicle (OLEV), was developed as early as 2009 by researchers at the KAIST. Vehicles using the system draw power from a power source underneath the road surface, which is an array of inductive rails or coils. There have been efforts to standardize dynamic wireless power transfer in the 2020s.