Volvo Develops Wireless Battery Charging System
Battery charging system with no wired or wireless (wireless), could also be without plugs or stekker for hybrid electric cars and plug-ins, car manufacturers increasingly demand world. Previously, Toyota has been proclaimed in cooperation with WiTricity (U.S.) to develop wireless charging system, now turn Volvo in collaboration with the Belgian company.
This method is considered more comfortable and enjoyable. Because car owners do not bother to roll over cable filling or attract when it will plug into the socket. The latest version - is actually still in the development stage - which will be filled car parked on the top plate battery charger (charging plate) are hidden under the floor or road surface.
Volvo developed a wireless charging, in collaboration with Belgium's Flanders Drive - is the induction system. With this system, the source of electrical energy transferred from the charger to the car without cables. In this way also, any change or modification to the charging system in the car.
"The primary target should please owners of electric cars," explains Johan Konnberg, project manager of the Special Vehicles Division, Volvo Car Corporation. In this project Volvo C30 electricity use should --first filling system.
How it Works inductive charging, the charger plate is planted in the ground, for example beneath the surface of the road to the house or in the garage. Plate filler consists of coils that generate magnetic fields when energized by electrical current.
Well, when a car parked on it, the energy of the plate was transferred to without physical contact to coil "puller" induction on the car. Flow transferred in the form of alternating current (AC).
Later in the car, an electric current is converted into direct current (DC) through a converter to charge the battery. Especially on the Volvo C30 Electric, battery capacity to 24 kWh, it takes about 1 hour one hour and 20 minutes for full charge.
Added, Volvo will deliver 250 electric cars to their selected customers in Europe in the second half of this year. This is a step to accelerate the public to use to choose an electric car!
