A dynamic wireless charging technology for electric vehicles is being tested in practice for the first time in Balingen in Germany. The process is called Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer, abbreviated DWPT. The garden show shuttle bus is planned for the first use of the pilot project. It charges its vehicle battery while driving.Electreon Germany, EnBW, and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, together with Stadtwerke Balingen, want to use DWPT technology in Balingen under real conditions and prove its practicability. The entire project is sponsored by the German Aerospace Center and is called ELINA (Use of Dynamic Charging Infrastructure in Public Transport).The route of the garden show shuttle bus leads from the parking lot on the exhibition grounds to the Stadthalle stop. The dynamic loading process takes place on an approximately 400-meter-long section in Wilhelmstraße. Here, the solenoids are inserted under the roadway. When the bus approaches this point, high-frequency magnetic fields are generated there. These induce an electric current in receiver coils on the vehicle floor of the bus, with which the battery is charged. Inductive stops will also be planned at the Stadthalle and Messegelände terminus. In a second stage, the project managers want to equip further routes in Heimlichenwasen and in front of the Lauwasenschule with magnetic coils, and also set up another inductive stop at the bus depot and thus extend the project to regular scheduled services.Those responsible expect that the Balingen lighthouse project will also be followed with interest in other municipalities.
A dynamic wireless charging technology for electric vehicles is being tested in practice for the first time in Balingen in Germany. The process is called Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer, abbreviated DWPT. The garden show shuttle bus is planned for the first use of the pilot project. It charges its vehicle battery while driving.Electreon Germany, EnBW, and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, together with Stadtwerke Balingen, want to use DWPT technology in Balingen under real conditions and prove its practicability. The entire project is sponsored by the German Aerospace Center and is called ELINA (Use of Dynamic Charging Infrastructure in Public Transport).The route of the garden show shuttle bus leads from the parking lot on the exhibition grounds to the Stadthalle stop. The dynamic loading process takes place on an approximately 400-meter-long section in Wilhelmstraße. Here, the solenoids are inserted under the roadway. When the bus approaches this point, high-frequency magnetic fields are generated there. These induce an electric current in receiver coils on the vehicle floor of the bus, with which the battery is charged. Inductive stops will also be planned at the Stadthalle and Messegelände terminus. In a second stage, the project managers want to equip further routes in Heimlichenwasen and in front of the Lauwasenschule with magnetic coils, and also set up another inductive stop at the bus depot and thus extend the project to regular scheduled services.Those responsible expect that the Balingen lighthouse project will also be followed with interest in other municipalities.
