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- Google filings suggest it wants its self-driving cars to charge wirelessly
Posted by : Brij Bhushan
Friday, 5 February 2016
According to documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) — and found by IEEE Spectrum — Google is looking to cut the cord on its self-driving car, the power cord, that is. In February of last year, HevoPower, a New York-based start-up received permission from the FCC to install its experimental charger at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. In July, Momentum Dynamics, followed suit by installing its own charger at an address believed to associated with Google’s ultra-secretive, “X” division — which is currently working on the autonomous car. The filings detail Google’s testing of two wireless charging…
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