Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced Thursday that it had successfully demonstrated a new 20-kilowatt wireless charging system for electric vehicles.
The lab said the charging system achieved 90 percent efficiency at three times the rate of the plug-in systems commonly used to recharge electric vehicles.
“This ability can help accelerate the adoption and convenience of electric vehicles,” ORNL said in a release distributed to the news media.
The Department of Energy laboratory collaborated on technology development with Toyota, Cisco Systems, Evatran, and Clemson University’s International Center for Automotive Research. Continue reading →