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title: "Success! High-speed wireless charging gets real at Purdue University"
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description: "Purdue University engineers, with support from Cummins, have successfully charged a battery-electric semi truck at highway speeds without wires, marking a first in the US. This patent-pending system electrified a quarter-mile segment of US Highway 52/US Highway 231, delivering 190 kilowatts of power while the truck traveled at 65 mph. The innovation aims to reduce range anxiety and costs associated with electric vehicles by enabling charging on the move, potentially transforming the future of electrified highways."
datetime: "2026-01-04T00:36:56.000Z"
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# Success! High-speed wireless charging gets real at Purdue University

For the first time in the US, a battery-electric semi truck has successfully been charged at highway speeds, and without wires thanks to a new, patent-pending system designed by a team of Purdue University engineers with support from Cummins.

First announced last April as a joint project between Purdue and Cummins, the project electrified a quarter-mile long segment of US Highway 52/US Highway 231 in West Lafayette, Indiana. More significantly, the team successfully delivered 190 kilowatts (!?) of charging power to a Class 8 electric semi truck while it was traveling at a confirmed 65 mph.

“Two of the big barriers to electric vehicle adoption, at least to the public, are range anxiety — ‘Oh, my gosh, where am I going to charge the battery on this car?’ — and the second thing is cost,” explainsJohn Haddock, a professor in Purdue University’s Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering. “And a lot of that cost in electric vehicles is driven by the size of the battery packs that they have to have in order to get you that 250-to-300 mile range. With this system, you’d be able to drive your vehicle down the road and it would charge the battery.”

Purdue’s patent-pending system involves installing transmitter coils in specially dedicated lanes within the road itself. Those coils send power to a set of receiver coils installed beneath the truck’s frame in such a way that, the university claims, demonstrates key technology in the wireless charging arena that could help drive down the costs of building electrified highways for all electric vehicles to use.

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