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Korean electric car gets a charge - an induction charge - from the road

Using solar roads for power generation is an idea that is being tested by the U.S. DOE. Over in Korea, tests involving a road giving up some power are underway. Instead of sucking up sunlight, the prototype roads send energy upwards to small electric vehicles through touchless magnetic induction technology. Developed by the Korea Advanced Institute of Technology (KAIST), the OLEV (On Line Electric Vehicle) system uses buried power cables in the road and a receiving unit in the EVs traveling on it. KAIST says that power is transferred at 80 ... Read more →

Radio controlled airplane can fly for 10 hours on 500 grams of hydrogen Jeremy Korzeniewski

Korean electric car gets a charge - an induction charge - from the road 3 months ago on Autoblog Green

Radio controlled airplane can fly for 10 hours on 500 grams of hydrogen 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has built and demonstrated a new unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that can fly for up to ten hours using 500 grams of liquefied hydrogen fuel. The hydrogen is the energy carrier which appears to provide electricity to an electric motor via ...

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