Unless your electric vehicles tend to strictly circle your home base, you're going to need to charge up on-the-go -- and until some sort of standard gets worked out, we're likely to see the "EV filling station" approached on many different angles. In the last six months alone we've seen 'em pop up in a New York alleyway and a North Carolina McDonald's, and Better Place has tested one of its novel battery switching stations in Tokyo -- with more on the horizon. Eager to get in on the game, Plugless Power (whose parent company, MTC Transformers, has been working with similar tech for the grid for years now) looks like its finally ready to commercialize its own hands-free (and plug-free) proximity charging system. With any luck, environmentally conscious commuters will be juicin' up in their garages by the end of next year. And who knows? Maybe this sort of thing will be available at Sparky's Fill'R'Up on the PA Turnpike at some point in the near future. PR after the break.
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