Test and Application

To test the wireless charged On-Line Electric Vehicle, KAIST campus already put the online buses into daily use and the local amusement park use the OLEV trams to take about hundred people every day.The world’ first OLEV was into services at the Seoul Zoo in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi Province, and it decision was made by The Seoul Metropolitan Government August 2009. At the Seoul Grand Park, the OLEV is charged by the charging planted about 5 cm under the ground and services 2.2 kilometer-long.So far, the OLEV is lunched and demonstrated successfully in Korea and this new technology is introduced to the whole world now. Furthermore, the KAIST is going to launch the projects in Pak City,Utah, United States and Kuala Lumpur Airport, Malaysia.

Beside the Korea, Qualcomm decide to expand the electrification projects in London; Mitsubishi and Toyota are cooperating with Witricity to apply OLEV to the passenger cars; European and U.S. car manufactories  are developing  this this technology to the market.In 2011, The Federal Transit Administration of the City of McAllen will allow them to retrofit three diesel busses to OLEV buses by the end of 2013.