{"id":8507,"date":"2018-06-06T09:06:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T23:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/?p=8507"},"modified":"2020-06-20T00:27:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T14:27:21","slug":"bmws-ev-wireless-charging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/electric-vehicles-evs\/bmws-ev-wireless-charging\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW's EV Wireless Charging"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BMW’s Wireless Charging<\/p><\/div>\n

The new BMW 5-Series iPerformance models boast some very cool \u2018world-first\u2019 technology.\u00a0 Available factory-fitted with a fully integrated inductive charging facility means that you can arrive home, park over a ground pad (the inductive charging facility\/station) and hey-presto your car charges up, ready for your next trip away.<\/p>\n

BMW\u2019s Wireless Charging consists of the GroundPad (an inductive charging station), that can be installed either in a garage or outdoors, and the CarPad, which is fixed to the underside of the vehicle will connect to the GroundPad once parked appropriately.\u00a0 This technology is available as an option on the new BMW 530e iPerformance model.\u00a0 The\u00a0GroundPad\u00a0generates a magnetic field that induces an electric current in the CarPad, which then charges the battery in the car.<\/p>\n

BMW\u2019s 530e iPerformance model has the parking systems that help the driver to manoeuvre into the correct parking position over the GroundPad using\u00a0a WiFi connection\u00a0between the charging station and the vehicle.\u00a0 Once the connection has been made, an overhead view of the car and its surroundings then appears in the car’s display screen with coloured lines that help guide the driver into position.\u00a0 An icon shows up on the screen when the correct parking position is reached for the process of inductive charging.\u00a0 BMW say the position for parking over the top of the GroundPad isn\u2019t difficult to locate as the position can deviate by up to 7 cm longitudinally and up to 14 cm laterally \u2013 so it has plenty of buffering for getting a good connection.\u00a0 To easy!<\/p>\n

We already are becoming familiar with the wireless charging systems inside many new cars from different manufacturers where mobile phones and electric toothbrushes can be wirelessly charged inside the car.\u00a0 BMW says its\u00a0wireless charging uses the same inductive charging technology already widely used for supplying power to devices such as these.<\/p>\n

BMW has unveiled a wireless charging system that will be available in Germany, followed shortly by the UK, the US, Japan and China. \u00a0It\u2019s nice to be able to boast this technology and do away with cords and manual contraptions for charging your hybrid.\u00a0 Germany and Europe seem to be leading the way with cutting edge EV technology, and this inductive charging system, created by BMW, will set the ball rolling for other manufacturers to follow suit.<\/p>\n

I can imagine, like BMW, a world where you just pull up to your car park in the city, and the wireless inductive charging facility that\u2019s set in place, in the road, underneath your EV will charge up your car while you duck into the caf\u00e9 for a coffee or buy the necessary office equipment for your business.\u00a0 This is all pretty cool technology! http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/microzaymi-blog-single.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new BMW 5-Series iPerformance models boast some very cool \u2018world-first\u2019 technology.\u00a0 Available factory-fitted with a fully integrated inductive charging facility means that you can arrive home, park over a ground pad (the inductive charging facility\/station) and hey-presto your car charges up, ready for your next trip away. BMW\u2019s Wireless Charging consists of the GroundPad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4923],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-vehicles-evs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8507"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11228,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8507\/revisions\/11228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}