Google Is Testing Wireless Charging for Its Self-Driving Cars
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Google Is Testing Wireless Charging for Its Self-Driving Cars
'Google parent-company Alphabet is testing at least two wireless charging systems for its electric-powered self-driving cars.
Documents filed with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission reveal Google GOOG -2.62% is testing two wireless charging systems for its self-driving cars, reported IEEE Spectrum.'
http://fortune.com/2016/02/08/google-self-driving-car-wireless-charging/
Google Wants Its Driverless Cars to Be Wireless Too - IEEE Spectrum
'... Documents filed at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) suggest that Google is working toward cutting its robocars’ charger cables and beaming power to them instead.
The filings reveal that Google has been testing two wireless charging systems for its prototype electric self-driving cars in California. In February 2015, Hevo Power, a New York–based start-up, received permission from the FCC to install an experimental charger at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Momentum Dynamics, located in the suburbs of Philadelphia, followed in July. The address on Momentum’s filing corresponds to the secretive X division where Google’s self-driving cars are being developed.
Both companies’ systems transfer power from a transmitter embedded in the ground to a receiver on the underside of an electric vehicle, using a principle called resonant magnetic induction. In this process, an alternating current passing through a tuned electrical circuit creates an oscillating magnetic field. That field then induces another alternating current in a second, nearby circuit tuned to the same resonant frequency.
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http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/google-wants-its-driverless-cars-to-be-wireless-too
http://fortune.com/2016/02/08/google-self-driving-car-wireless-charging/
Google Is Testing Wireless Charging for Its Self-Driving Cars
'Google parent-company Alphabet is testing at least two wireless charging systems for its electric-powered self-driving cars.
Documents filed with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission reveal Google GOOG -2.62% is testing two wireless charging systems for its self-driving cars, reported IEEE Spectrum.'
http://fortune.com/2016/02/08/google-self-driving-car-wireless-charging/
Google Wants Its Driverless Cars to Be Wireless Too - IEEE Spectrum
'... Documents filed at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) suggest that Google is working toward cutting its robocars’ charger cables and beaming power to them instead.
The filings reveal that Google has been testing two wireless charging systems for its prototype electric self-driving cars in California. In February 2015, Hevo Power, a New York–based start-up, received permission from the FCC to install an experimental charger at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Momentum Dynamics, located in the suburbs of Philadelphia, followed in July. The address on Momentum’s filing corresponds to the secretive X division where Google’s self-driving cars are being developed.
Both companies’ systems transfer power from a transmitter embedded in the ground to a receiver on the underside of an electric vehicle, using a principle called resonant magnetic induction. In this process, an alternating current passing through a tuned electrical circuit creates an oscillating magnetic field. That field then induces another alternating current in a second, nearby circuit tuned to the same resonant frequency.
...'
http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/google-wants-its-driverless-cars-to-be-wireless-too
http://fortune.com/2016/02/08/google-self-driving-car-wireless-charging/
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