The first wireless electric road in the US has been installed in Detroit, allowing electric vehicles to charge up as they drive along. But at nearly $2m (£1.6m) per mile, is this really the future of transport?
It looks like any other stretch of asphalt in cities across the US. But drive down 14th Street in Detroit, Michigan in the right vehicle, and something strange happens. This is the first public place in the US where you can drive an electric vehicle and it doesn’t drain the battery – it charges it.
The quarter-mile (400m) section of road through the Corktown area of Detroit is a pilot of a wireless technology that is capable of charging vehicles as they drive over it.
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