Evatran’s Plugless Charging Station: Charge Your Car Two Inches Away
Now here comes an easy way to charge your electric vehicles, the Evatran’s Plugless charging Station. This system works by installing an adapter about the size of a shoebox into the car, which will be able to charge the battery when the car is close enough to the power station’s parking block. The distance required is a very merciless two inches only, so you might want to make sure your driving skills are up to scratch.
The Evatran Plugless Power Station currently operates at 80% efficiency, though it hopes to achieve 90% efficiency on launch, which is slated to be by April 2011 and should be priced around $800. However, this isn’t exactly an easy process and requires a bit of precision manoeuvring, but once you get the hang of it, the process becomes a whole lot easier, say, plugging and unplugging things over and over again for the life of your car.
Evatran looks like it’ll be a player as it is working on getting UL listed and is talking with OEMs and niche players to have wireless chargers being an option at the time you buy a vehicle. The company started researching the idea 18 months ago, came to Plug In 2009 and, two months ago, and got $1.25 million from the state of Virginia’s Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization program. So, things are moving fast, and we’ll try to keep up.