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.
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