Some day you’ll charge everything wirelessly — phones, cars, graphing calculators, all using an analogous basic technology. That’s one of these utopian vision Toyota had in mind when it formed the Wireless Battery-charging Alliance with WiTricity . The young Massachusetts-based company is pushing “resonance” technology, which charges electronics without contact and is supposedly more efficient than induction-based charging — a class that features the preferred Qi standard . This new partnership ups the ante, adding electric vehicles to the list of chargeable devices, a vision of the longer term where Prius batteries could be filled wirelessly, while sitting in driveways and parking garages. Exxon’s engineers are not any doubt working to perfect the hose-free gasoline transfer immediately. PR after the break.
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TMC and WiTricity Form Wireless Battery-charging AllianceToyota City, Japan, April 27, 2011-Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has entered right into a technological collaboration agreement with Massachusetts, Country based WiTricity Corporation in regards to the practical application of automotive wireless charging systems and the promotion in their widespread use. TMC plans to take part in a WiTricity capital increase.
WiTricity’s charging technology uses resonance, which permits charging without direct contact and is more efficient than electromagnetic-induction, another wireless technology-but person who requires contact-that’s beginning to come of age in cellular telephone and other chargers. TMC believes that resonance wireless charging is appropriate for automobiles and aims for its early practical use.
The collaboration is aimed to accelerate development and eventual implementation of wireless charging for automobiles. The charging of a plug-in hybrid or electric vehicle should be as simple and convenient as parking near an embedded charger at a house or in a parking facility.
Inside the Toyota Global Vision announced in March, TMC expressed its commitment to leading find out how to the way forward for mobility by integrating automobiles, homes and data technology. Wireless charging is only one of the various technologies TMC seeks to develop for the longer term.
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