Future Electric Car Chargers Will Follow You Around [Cars]

It’s bad enough worrying about losing your life-enabling smartphone connection thanks to a battery mismanagement crisis-but what happens when your car goes flat? A new wave of mobile car chargers could stop that nightmare scenario from unfolding.

Researchers at Mitsubishi’s test labs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, think the answer is usually a network of movable charging stations . A central database would compile power usage and battery capacity records from electric vehicles, then use this to locate the places where cars find themselves in most need of a further charge. And that’s where the stations go.

These mobile power stations would require charging themselves, but they’d do theirs overnight when nobody’s about-also helping balance the long run power loads the brand new wave of electric cars will bring. [ New Scientist ]

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