The Indiana Department of Transport (INDOT) recently announced plans to build a pretty wild new wireless charging system as part of a research project

Pavement That Wirelessly Charges EVs Will Be Tested in Indiana

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The Indiana Department of Transport (INDOT) recently announced plans to build a pretty wild new wireless charging system as part of a research project. The pilot program will see a quarter-mile stretch of road fitted with wireless charging technology embedded onto the pavement so vehicles can charge while driving along (or parked). It's not the first time someone's tried something like this, but it's the first time a U.S. department of transport has gone ahead with a confirmed project.

There'll be three phases to the project and the first two will happen before the tech hits the streets, literally. Not a lot of detail has been given yet, aside from who's working on it, which is INDOT, Purdue University, and a German company called Magment, which produces—as the name suggests—magnetic cement. 

The plan is to run two phases of testing and analysis, which will mostly be done by Purdue, as you'd expect for a research project. When there's been enough data-crunching to work out how it'd be best to implement the project, on a test basis, then phase three sees stuff actually start to happen on a public road.

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