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First-ever wireless battery chargers for the electrotaxi launches

Customers: Administration of Oslo (Oslo kommune)

Government and social institutions



Project date: 2019/03

From the middle of March, 2019 Norway started the project on installation of the wireless systems of charging for electric taxi. Oslo will become the first city in the world where similar will be set charging. Norway started this initiative in hope to do exercises rather fast and effective as soon as possible to start the park of environmentally friendly taxi.

In the project the induction technology will be used: on the road at taxi stands will be set charging plates, and in vehicles – receivers. To 2023 all taxi in Oslo should become wasteless, and by 2025 wasteless it is supposed to make all transport in Norway. The similar purposes, but only for 2040, were delivered before itself by Great Britain and France.

Oslo earned the first-ever wireless battery chargers for the electrotaxi

The Finnish service on waste-free production of Fortum which works on the project in cooperation with the American company Momentum Dynamics and city administration of Oslo, stated that insufficiently developed infrastructure was the biggest obstacle for electrification of the taxi still: taxi drivers had to spend too much time for search of the charger, connection and for charging. Induction is more energy efficient and allows to load the taxi while machines are in slowly moving queues on special parking.

In Norway the highest prevalence of electric vehicles in the world on a population share, partly thanks to long-term privileges, such as decrease in the road charges and free parking. In 2018 every third car which is almost sold in Norway was the electric vehicle. The government also exempts electric vehicles from taxes on traditional vehicles which are very high in the country without own automotive industry.

According to European Automobile Manufacturers Association, in 2018 Norway in which only 5 million people live purchased 46,433 new electric vehicles thanks to what it became the largest market of electric vehicles in Europe.[1]

Electric vehicles



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