Norway’s capital Oslo will become the first city in the world to install wireless charging systems for electric taxis, hoping to make recharging quick and efficient enough to speed the takeup of non-polluting cabs.
The project will use induction technology, with charging plates installed on the road at taxi ranks linking to receivers installed in the vehicle, Finnish utility Fortum said on Thursday.
From 2023 onward all taxis in Oslo will have to be zero emission and Norway wants all new cars to be zero emission by 2025. Among other nations, Britain and France have similar goals for 2040.
