万花筒 2011-08-10&08-12 电动车无线充电技术

 Neil Butcher drives his wireless¹ car to his Birmingham office. Recharging most electric cars requires a bulky cable to be plugged into a specially-designed socket². But with wireless charging, Butcher doesn't even need to leave his vehicle. He just parks over a rubber mat, links to a nearby charging post. A plate beneath his car automatically picks up charge by electromagnetic conduction.

 

"Communication goes on between the car and the pad initially³ before the electricity turns on the pad and then you get magnetic field that comes up and then received by the pad under the car. As a user, it all just happens very automatically. I drive over it, the light comes on to say it's communicating and another light comes on to say it's fully⁴ aligned⁵, and then the third light comes on to say it's charging."

 

Butcher runs CABLED,  a West Midlands consortium, testing and promoting low-carbon vehicles. He says wireless charging has one distinct advantage over other electric systems he's tested.

 

"I never forget to charge,now I did forget to charge occasionally with the cabled car. But now I've got the wireless charging,it just turns on without any effort on my part."

 

British company HaloIPT is pioneering the system originally designed by researchers of the University of Auckland . HaloIPT believes wireless car's potential is endless. Technical operator Dick Stepson  says all major roads could be fitted with inductive strips, allowing vehicles to run on permanent wireless charge.

 

"If you've got an inductive-powered car or a charging-powered car,you just drive it forever. And you never take it anywhere and you never plug it in,you never do anything with it and you just park where you wanna park it, parks up. So you just forget the whole issue of charging and so you just completely eliminate raging anxiety. In fact you can completely eliminate the need to go anywhere to fuel your car."

 

HaloIPT is working with a number of authorities to develop the technology as quickly as possible. Its ambitious plan for wireless roads does face obstacles, including the potentially high cost of installation. But the company is convinced that its technology is the holy grail of efficient, inexpensive, and environmentally-friendly motoring.

1 wireless   

adj.无线的；n.无线电

参考例句：

• There are a lot of wireless links in a radio.收音机里有许多无线电线路。
• Wireless messages tell us that the ship was sinking.无线电报告知我们那艘船正在下沉。

2 socket   

n.窝，穴，孔，插座，插口

参考例句：

• He put the electric plug into the socket.他把电插头插入插座。
• The battery charger plugs into any mains socket.这个电池充电器可以插入任何类型的电源插座。

3 initially   

adv.最初，开始

参考例句：

• The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
• Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。

4 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

5 aligned   

adj.对齐的，均衡的

参考例句：

• Make sure the shelf is aligned with the top of the cupboard.务必使搁架与橱柜顶端对齐。