Graham Hill, Car Finance Expert, Reveals New In Road Charging Method For Electric Cars

Sunday, 18. April 2010

I’ve got an electric tooth brush! No this isn’t a piece about the importance of dental care but I have to say that it is important! I plug my 2 pin plug into the razor socket and put the toothbrush on the plastic stub that sticks out of the bottom of the charging bit. Now I don’t profess to know anything about electricity but if I do that at night, by the morning my toothbrush is fully charged and all set to give my gnashers a pearly white shine! When I plug the tooth brush in I can touch the plastic bit that the toothbrush sits on and not get a massive electric shock so I was thinking that this theory must have a use when it comes to electric cars and the re-charging thereof. Well it seems as though I might have been thinking along the right lines as the Koreans have been using metal strips buried under a road in a theme park in Seoul, South Korea to recharge a vehicle which draws the power by magnetic force. Could this be the way forward? No pun intended. They are now trialling the system on public roads. By Graham Hill