Charging while driving – future technology?

Car with inductive charging

The German start-up Magment now wants to electrify a piece of the highway in the USA.

Dusseldorf It still sounds like a vision of a distant future: electric cars that charge while driving on the autobahn. No search for pillars, no waiting in the parking lot, no fear of range. And at the same time, the batteries could shrink and e-cars could become even more climate-friendly.

For company founder Mauricio Esguerra, this scenario is now within reach. His company Magment from Unterhaching near Munich is developing magnetic concrete that enables inductive charging. The principle is already known from electric toothbrushes and cell phones: As soon as the device is on the correct surface, electricity is transmitted wirelessly via an electromagnetic field.

So far, Magment has primarily offered the technology for charging industrial robots and e-scooters – now it is also intended to electrify a stretch of the highway in the USA. And the next step in the company’s expansion is already firmly in the planning stage: “We plan to go public by the end of the year,” announced Esguerra in an interview with the Handelsblatt.

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