2011-10-17 11:30:00 // Sustain Team
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Electric vehicle adoption rates, slow as they may be, are growing. Partnerships like the one announced in September between New Zealand’s Solar City and Mitsubishi are a good start, but the Pure Advantage group is hedging its bets on the launch in New Zealand of the Association for the Promotion of Electric Vehicles (APEV). The association is modelled on the Japanese counterpart of the same name, which has been successful in uniting all facets of the Electric Vehicle (EV) industry under a collaborative umbrella, the goal of which is to accelerate the adoption of EVs.
2010-11-01 14:19:29 // Deirdre Robert
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A Kiwi company could be revolutionising the electric car market, thanks to the recent London launch of the world’s first wireless technology, which allows parked or moving electric cars to charge automatically. Called IPT (Inductive Power Transfer), it works by fitting cars with a receiver pad to charge automatically when parked over transmitter pads buried into the ground. The wireless charging pads are designed to function beneath asphalt, submerged in water or covered in ice and snow. Fast-forward into the future, and the technology could be embedded into road infrastructure so IPT cars can be charged on the move.
