When it comes to electric vehicles, no one is further ahead of the game than Norway. The Nordic country has the highest percentage of residents driving electric cars, and the government is even mandating that all new cars sold in the country be all-electric by 2025.
Now Norway is taking it one step further as the capital city of Oslo is installing wireless, induction-based charging stations for electric taxis. In a bid to make a zero-emission cab system by as early as 2023, Oslo is installing charging plates in the roads that connect to energy receivers in the vehicles themselves.
The goal is to make it as easy as possible to charge electric taxis, as doing so now is cumbersome, time-consuming, and expensive. Using induction, which is more energy efficient, the taxis can be charged as they wait in what’s known as a taxi rank, or a slow-moving queue where cabs line up to wait for passengers.
