Abstract
With the introduction of electric vehicles, either all-electric vehicles or plug-in hybrids, battery charging is a significant and rather time-consuming necessity. Since the charging time is a function of the required energy, which is related to battery size versus maximum available power, this opens a wide spectrum of considerations from passenger cars to transportation applications. The right energy transfer method can increase social acceptance of passenger car electrification and enable the electrification of public bus transportation routes while reducing energy storage capacity, i.e. the weight required for propulsion. The research objective was to assess both the feasibility of wireless energy transfer for passenger cars during static energy transfer and the feasibility of wireless energy transfer for bus transportation using both static and dynamic energy transfers. Important research topics were the safety, efficiency and applicability of such inductive systems under different conditions such as installation and road construction methods.
KEYWORDS – inductive charging, static, dynamic, wireless, cars, buses.