The American company guaranteed that concrete will be able to charge electric cars with 95% efficiency, a mechanism similar to the wireless charging of smartphones
During the world's modernization process, basically everything we know has changed over time. Currently we have easy access to internet networks, high performance electronic objects and easy locomotion and even vehicles powered by electricity, and the creation of the time has everything to do with that. In the city of Indiana, in the United States, a company has developed a type of concrete that will help in recharging an electric car in motion, that is, preventing the driver from stopping to recharge his vehicle and waiting for long hours. The company guaranteed that the concrete will load the vehicles with 95% efficiency.
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Magment is the company responsible for designing this concrete model, as well as being responsible for installing this new technology. The US company said that this project is a big step towards the future, which provides for dynamic wireless charging of various models of electric cars.
According to Mauricio Esguerra, CEO of Magment, this technology will be able to establish a kind of standard for the electrification of transport considered accessible, efficient and sustainable.
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Concrete will be able to charge electric cars on the move, a technology that mimics the wireless charging of smartphones and other electronic devices. This technology is extremely current and powerful. The way in which it is used during wireless charging used in several devices, served as the basis for the creation of concrete that has identical characteristics.
The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) will be responsible for “planting” the coils of electrified wires under the asphalt, creating a magnetic field. The company predicts that this magnetic field should stay along the surface of the road, thus creating the first charging road for electric cars in the country.
Direction of the project, after completion of the feasibility studies
At the end of the studies and the successful completion of the tests, the model developed by Magment will be applied in a field that does not yet have any kind of link with other companies. This will make it easier to control the situation without outside interference.
The application of this technology on the road will start at the end of the summer and according to Magment, this application will take place in a few phases. In addition to the installation of coils on the road, there will also be installation of receiver coils in cars, so that they can receive charging. In this way, cars will be able to pick up the charge emitted by the concrete coils as they drive along the road.
Upon receiving the magnetic charge, an extra charge will be stored in the car's coils. The project will use recycled ferrite as coils, allowing it to meet the estimate of having the vehicle charged up to 95% efficiently.
At the end of the studies, if it is really verified that there is a cost saving, the last phase will be the production one, which will start after two tests not disclosed by the company, which will be carried out in a planned laboratory.
