Frost and Sullivan Award for "E-Mobility"
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Frost and Sullivan recently presented the "New Product Innovation Award" in the electric vehicle charging infrastructure market to Conductix-Wampfler. By this award, the consultants have emphasized the importance of wireless charging technologies as a key success factor in the adoption of electric vehicles. |
Internal combustion automobile drivers need only refuel once every two weeks on average. With electric cars, operators must recharge at least once a day, and sometimes several times a day. Wireless charging through inductive power transfer (IPT®) can greatly reduce the burden imposed by the recharging activity.
According to several studies, the recharging of electric vehicles is a major roadblock to the adoption of electric vehicles by typical drivers. However, with inductive charging, the driver is not inconvenienced at all. He/she can just park the electric vehicle and it recharges automatically. Electric vehicle owners do not have to fight the weather or do any work to charge their vehicles, whether at home or at parking facilities, or even at stop lights and stop signs - where ever there is a charging pad.
Charging starts automatically, without any operator intervention. It happens in the air gap between the inductive pickup on the underside of the vehicle and the charging pad beneath the pavement. The driver controls settings that affect the needed range and the cost of the charge. The charging pad can transmit the necessary information for the charging activity by inductive near-field communication channels.
Automatic wireless charging means more frequent charging processes, on the go. Charging currents and charging speeds can be much less, which yields longer battery life. It does not matter whether the driver is distracted or in a hurry. Inductive charging allows charging along the way, or so called "opportunity charging". Inductive charging can happen without any interference, on a regular basis, and in a more battery-friendly way. The inherent losses involved with fast battery charging are avoided. Battery life is more sustainable, and therefore the whole future of electric mobility is enhanced.
Conductix-Wampfler's recharging systems have been field-proven through years of hard use in public electric bus systems in Genoa and Turin, Italy and other places. Inductive charging points are totally integrated and invisible, which prevents vandalism and accidents in inner city charge points and parking garages.
The efficiency of wireless charging systems are comparable to charging cable, and under ideal conditions, wireless charging can even save energy versus cable systems. Whether in public facilities or at home, charging losses by hot cables and batteries, as well as plug wear, are eliminated.
Inductive charging has advantages for automobile manufacturers as well. Induction systems avoid the problems inherent with the lack of cable/plug standards. Newly released plug standards from North America, Japan, and Europe are different, causing manufacturers to adapt to many different standards. Using inductive power, on the other hand, can be made international, since the laws of physics are the same everywhere.
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