Electric Vehicle Nissan Leaf Gets Wireless Charging
Starting 2013, Nissan, the manufacturer of the electric vehicle Leaf, will make available an an option, a charging pad using inductive charging that can charge the EV, once parked on top of it. Leaf’s Owners will no longer have to fuss with cumbersome wire, plug, etc.. The inductive charging is similar to your electric tooth brush or on the last Palm Pixi and Pre or few available charging pads you can find in electronic retail stores.
“The charging pad contains the coils of a wireless induction loop and some electronics–induction is how electricity makes its way through a transformer, magnetically, with no physical connection between the coils. And you can think of the pavement pad as one half of a transformer. The other coils are installed beneath the floor of the Leaf itself. To charge it up the car is electrically reversed over the pad into the sweet spot with the aid of a dashboard display; sensors tell the car when to stop. Turning the main alternating current on connects the loop in the pad with the loop in the car, and after being converted into DC, it can charge up the car’s battery.”
The below video shows the difference of the traditional and wireless charging methods.
[Via FastCopany]
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