Finally - Electric cars with unlimited range!! Well in theory...

It's amazing how quickly the speed of change is moving now with electric vehicles, even just looking at threads on here over the last couple of years.

So the big issue of the that big heavy battery, and how to charge it during the day when you are using it could be solved by the fitting electric pads in the road.

"..."We can effectively get a car with unlimited range," says Anthony Thomson, vice president of business development at Qualcomm, the company behind so-called inductive charging technology.

The process involves the transfer of energy from an electrically wired pad on the ground to a matching pad under the car via an electromagnetic field.

The car's pad is wired to the car battery, which is automatically charged whenever the vehicle is parked or driven over a pad on the ground.

Several technology companies are working on similar ideas, where every time the car stops it receives a top-up charge, whether at home in the garage, outside a supermarket or even at traffic lights.

In time, the hope is that pads could be installed along roads to charge cars while they are moving..."

BBC News - 'Perpetual motion' drives electric cars forward