As electric vehicles spread across the land—analysts expect them to comprise 50 percent of new car sales by 2040—the next great challenge will be upgrading the charging infrastructure to support them.

Reprinted with permission from Frontiers of Engineering, Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering: Wireless Charging of Electric Vehicles, 2017 by the National Academy of Sciences, Courtesy of the National ...

A test project by Indiana DOT and Purdue University shows electric heavy-duty trucks can be wirelessly charged as they drive ...

Someday soon, plug-in cars may no longer need a plug. Electric vehicle drivers would simply pull into a specialized parking space when it’s time to power up, wait for a light on their dashboard to ...

The biggest obstacle to an all-electric-vehicle future always seems to be the batteries. Some of their components are hard to source, they’re expensive to make and they don’t have enough capacity for ...

Could this be the end of electric power cords? A Massachusetts company said that within 18 months it will have on the market a wireless electricity system to power -- through the air -- lights, ...

Someday soon, plug-in cars may no longer need a plug. Electric car drivers would simply pull into a specialized parking space when it’s time to power up, wait for a light on their dashboard to switch ...

Electric motorcycles are generally charged just like electric cars. The rider/driver hops off/out of the vehicle and then plugs in a charger cable into a charging socket on the vehicle. But what if ...

It's fascinating to think that while Edison and Tesla battled over the ascendancy of AC versus DC, most of the world didn't think this electricity thing was going to take off - I mean, who was going ...

Transmitting electrical energy without wires. Wireless electricity mostly refers to devices that rest in a cradle or on a pad for charging. Transmitting electricity from a power grid without wires ...

WiTricity Corp. CEO Alex Gruzen calls it a “silly arms race” where automakers are focusing their resources on promoting the speed of their plug-in electric vehicle chargers when the future seems to be ...