Renault & Qualcomm Demonstrate Dynamic Wireless Electrical Vehicle Charging [Video]

Renault today demonstrated dynamic wireless electrical vehicle charging (DEVC), which allows vehicles to accuse spell driving. Renault has participated amongst Qualcomm Technologies together with Vedecom inwards designing a DEVC scheme capable of charging an electrical vehicle dynamically amongst a accuse of upwards to twenty kilowatts at speeds upwards to, together with inwards excess of, 100 kilometers per hour. The DEVC scheme has been designed to back upwards real-world implementation of dynamic charging. The ii Renault Kangoo Z.E. vehicles tin selection upwards accuse inwards both directions along the track.

The dynamic charging demonstrations took house at the 100-meter exam track, built yesteryear Vedecom at Satory, Versailles, nigh Paris, inside the FABRIC project. Qualcomm Technologies together with Vedecom installed the primary constituent of the DEVC scheme inwards the exam track, whilst Vedecom together with Renault installed the secondary constituent onto ii Renault Kangoos Z.E.. The DEVC scheme volition soon last handed over to Vedecom to perform tests for FABRIC. The tests volition evaluate the functioning together with efficiency of unloose energy transfer to the vehicles for a broad attain of practical scenarios including vehicle identification together with ascendence on entering track, mightiness degree understanding betwixt rails together with vehicle, speed together with alignment of vehicle along track.

FABRIC is a €9 1000000 project, by together with large funded yesteryear the European Commission, addressing the technological feasibility, economical viability, together with socio-environmental sustainability of wireless DEVC. The projection began inwards Jan 2014 together with volition boot the bucket along through Dec 2017, together with is beingness undertaken yesteryear a consortium of 25 organizations from ix European countries, including automotive manufacturers, suppliers, service providers together with query organizations from automotive, route together with unloose energy infrastructure domains. VEDECOM is 1 of the FABRIC collaborators together with responsible for providing the demonstration of the charging solution at Satory using the Qualcomm Halo DEVC system. FABRIC’s main destination is to deport feasibility analysis of wireless DEVC equally a agency of EV attain extension.

“Our engineers together with management cause got fully supported this projection since the really starting fourth dimension equally it aligns perfectly amongst our focus on EVs, charging systems together with mobility services,” says Luc Marbach, principal executive officer, VEDECOM. “We are a public-private partnership focused on pre-competitive research. The installation of 1 of the world’s initiatory of all DEVC exam platforms has provided us amongst a unique exam facility together with nosotros await frontwards to expanding our expertise amongst the futurity testing.”

“Being constituent of this exciting projection has enabled us to exam together with farther query dynamic charging on our Kangoo Z.E. vehicles,” said Eric Feunteun, electrical vehicle programme director, Groupe Renault. “Our engineers cause got worked really closely amongst the Qualcomm Technologies together with VEDECOM teams to consummate the DEVC scheme integration demonstration equally constituent of FABRIC. We meet dynamic charging equally a swell vision to farther heighten the repose of role of EVs, thence the accessibility of EVs for all.”

“We are inventors. We are WEVC. This dynamic charging demonstration is the embodiment of this,” said Steve Pazol, vice president together with full general manager, wireless charging, Qualcomm Incorporated. “I am immensely proud of what nosotros cause got achieved. The combination of a global squad of skillful engineers together with Qualcomm Halo technology, which covers all aspects of WEVC systems, irrespective of the magnetics used, has enabled us to actually force the boundaries of the possible together with outline our vision for futurity urban mobility.”

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