Sitting in the passenger seat of the wife's Macan 4S EV right now. Installed 11.2KW charging for it. Had to stop at a super charger for 15 minutes as we had to take an unexpected long trip today and she never plugs it in until the car is at 30%. I would 100% install this in the floor. You park in the garage and it charges. It is perfect.
I wonder about unexpected side-effects of inductive charging.
Less efficiency is one thing.
But what about the magnetic fields? I notice some EVs have pacemaker warnings due to the magnetic fields. Would this be a similar situatuon? And would it erase the mag strip on your credit cards?
This is an absolute waste of weight and nothing more than a presser tech demonstrator.
Given induction's fundamental (physics) limitations, there's zero chance this will make it into a production vehicle.
The energy storage requirements and practical charging speed of a car are not remotely the same as for a portable electronic device such as a phone.
Human passenger EV charging will always be through a direct cable connection.
If you want something even faster, just do an automated physical battery swap and design the car's physical safety envelope and grounding systems around this additional access affordance.
Charging has just got "reasonably" short at maybe 15-30 minutes and with inductive charging the charging industry goes back 5 years in term of time needed to charge.
Porsche demonstrates inductive EV charging at IAA
(newsroom.porsche.com)28 points by sizzle 12 September 2025 | 41 comments
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What a world we live in.
Less efficiency is one thing.
But what about the magnetic fields? I notice some EVs have pacemaker warnings due to the magnetic fields. Would this be a similar situatuon? And would it erase the mag strip on your credit cards?
Given induction's fundamental (physics) limitations, there's zero chance this will make it into a production vehicle.
The energy storage requirements and practical charging speed of a car are not remotely the same as for a portable electronic device such as a phone.
Human passenger EV charging will always be through a direct cable connection.
If you want something even faster, just do an automated physical battery swap and design the car's physical safety envelope and grounding systems around this additional access affordance.
I think it would be more interesting to have some kind of robot-type mechanism to make the car connect itself to the charger.