Electrical bus in Korea charges while it drives, no need to stop except for passengers

08/06/2013 - 00:00


By Philip E. Ross -


Electric vehicles would have a lot more appeal if they didn't have to stand for hours while recharging their batteries. One solution is to recharge them while they move, as engineers at Korea's KAIST proposed in IEEE Spectrum back in March.

KAIST's online electric vehicle (OLEV) system has already demonstrated trams that recharge themselves while circling city parks.



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