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CTOnews.com, Dec. 17 (Xinhua)-- Florida recently approved a new toll road project, including an electrified section that can charge electric cars wirelessly. The new east-west highway, called State Route 516, will connect Lake County's Highway 27 to Orange County's Highway 429, a major upgrade of the Central Florida transportation network.

The project was jointly developed by the Central Florida Highway Administration (CFX) and ASPIRE, which is responsible for integrating ENRX inductive charging technology into the highway. This technology works similar to an electric toothbrush or a car wireless charger, which transfers energy to the receiving board at the bottom of the vehicle through coils pre-installed under the road, thus opening and charging at the same time.

ENRX has more than 25 years of technology accumulation and has conducted many tests in Europe, successfully providing electric vehicles with a charging power of up to 180kW. They say the technology applies to all types of cars, vans, trucks and buses, and will not have any impact on non-electric vehicles.

Although the technology sounds exciting, it still needs to be treated rationally. Only about 1.6 kilometers of the 8-kilometer highway will be electrified and can initially recharge only a small number of test vehicles. Eventually, however, CFX hopes to provide the charging service to all electric car drivers.

It is worth mentioning that this highway is not the first inductive charging highway in the United States, and a similar section about 400 meters long was officially opened in Detroit, Michigan last month.

The State Route 516 project, which costs $524 million (CTOnews.com Note: currently about 3.731 billion yuan), needs to cross part of the green space, but the project has also made corresponding environmental measures, including the construction of wildlife passageways and special roads for runners and walkers. In addition, the highway will connect the two fastest-growing areas of Florida and is expected to bring huge economic benefits.

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