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" Automotive technology company HaloIPT wants to bring electric vehicles and wireless recharging to the world of racing. Teamed with UK-based Drayson Racing Technologies, a team that purportedly &amp;quot;develops and races green motorsport technology,&amp;quot; the two outfits are looking to fit electric racing cars with dynamic charging systems. Transmitters in the road surface will feed energy to the vehicle&amp;#039;s battery pack, ensuring that time consuming stops to plug-in and recharge are a thing of the past. It&amp;#039;s pretty exciting technology, especially in terms of real world applications for EVs. Imagine pulling up to a traffic light in your EV and, while waiting for the light to turn green, your car is seamlessly topped up with electricity. Not only do you have a zero emission car, you also own a vehicle that could feasibly never stop running under its own power. That&amp;#039;s a dramatic improvement from the approximate 70-100 miles of range offered by most of today&amp;#039;s EVs. &amp;quot;Dynamic wireless charging will be a real game-changer, enabling zero emission electric vehicles to race over long periods without the need for heavy batteries,&amp;quot; said Lord Paul Drayson, co-founder of Drayson Racing. &amp;quot;Motor racing is the ideal environment to fast-track the development of this promising technology and to prove its effectiveness.&amp;quot; HaloIPT says the first electric racing car to demonstrate this technology will hit the track &amp;quot;later this year.&amp;quot; Charging pads will be placed in the pit lane and on the track itself. However, the type of car and the location of the track have not been disclosed. A search on HaloIPT&amp;#039;s website turned up several videos of a Citroen C1 EV-ie and, somewhat ironically, an animated Toyota Prius hybrid demonstrating how Inductive Power Transfer (IPT) works. Both are fine eco-conscious cars, though neither seems particularly suited for carving corners and smoking the tread off their low-rolling-resistance tires on a racetrack. Related posts:  Wireless Charging for Rolls Royce 102EX Is Wireless Car Charging Coming? Electric-Powered Smart Fortwo to Debut at 2010 Essen Motor Show  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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