Electric avenue: LA getting car-charging road ahead of 2028 Olympics
NY Post | 11/30/24 | Chris Harris

California is about to become home to the nation’s second electric vehicle-charging roadway — with construction due to be completed ahead of the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.

The multimillion dollar UCLA project, funded with state grant moneys, will concentrate on a half-mile stretch of road in Westwood, according to the Los Angeles Times.

And it will come as the university prepares to host the Olympic Village — where all of the competing athletes stay during the games.

“A wireless inductive option is a game changer,” Clinton Bench, director of the UCLA Fleet and Transit, told the Times.

“When a vehicle is driving over [a charger], the vehicle can collect charge while it’s moving.”

Close to $20 million in grant money will be used to upgrade UCLA‘s bus fleet, replacing gas-powered vehicles with electric buses.

The EV-charging roadway will eliminate the need to connect any of the buses to electric charging coils.

Any electric vehicle that utilizes the roadway will be able to pick up a charge, thanks to several underground charging stations.

The buses would pick up charge while driving throughout the day or when parked at a stationary wireless charger.

So, a half-mile of road, at (say) sixty miles per hour, provides exactly how much time to re-charge the wireless charger the buses don’t have?