World's First Road-Powered Electric Vehicle Network Opens

Daniel_Stuckey writes "South Korea continues to pull out all the stops on the long road to a high-tech utopia. Last year, the city Yeosu hosted the Expo 2012, an international exhibition that highlighted emerging technology and design that attracted 8 million visitors over three months. Today, the nation has finally unveiled the world's first road-powered electric vehicle network for regular use. Here's how it works: the network runs on newly-built roads that have electric cables and wires embedded below the surface. This allows for the magnetic-resonance transfer of energy to the network's vehicles, which not only already run on small batteries (about a third of the size of a typical electric vehicle) but also do not require the plug-in-and-recharge process common to other electric cars."

Comments

Re:Slowly sip the power!

[Ichijo]

Don't worry, the problem of people trying to charge their mobile devices in the middle of the road will solve itself fairly quickly.

I've always dreamed of this

[GoodNewsJimDotCom]

The moment when you can finally steal the bumper cars from the amusement park and drive them home.