Crews are working hard in West Lafayette, cutting into pavement along a stretch of"It's a quarter-mile stretch of test pilot road where we're going to test these results that us, Purdue University and Cummins Inc. have had successful results in the past," said INDOT spokesperson Blake Dollier.Credit: Matthew Fultz/WTHR
Crews from INDOT and Purdue work on installing the groundwork for a road that would charge electric cars, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. "You could have a heavy-duty or passenger electric vehicle drive over U.S. 52 at highway speeds and get a wireless charge on that vehicle," Dollier said. "It could be a chance to make electric vehicles as easy to use or even easier to use than internal combustion engines," Purdue professor of engineering John Haddock said.
Haddock is one of the Purdue engineers who works on the team that created the study a few years ago. So far, they've only done tests indoors at a nearby facility.Now they're prepping for the official outdoor tests, digging up slabs and making holes. "The coils will actually get dropped into that and then the wires for the coil go down through the slab into subgrade down below. Every two slabs are wired in together, and wired into generators," Haddock said. "In order for it to pay for itself, you need to have the heavy trucks use it and the trucking industry seems very interested in it," Haddock said. Related Articles
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