Detroit just did something every EV driver has dreamed about: it turned a normal city street into a live charger. Under a quarter-mile of 14th Street, copper coils sit a few inches below the pavement and feed power into electric vehicles that pass over them. The Michigan Department of Transportation’s new wireless charging roadway in the Michigan Central district is the first public EV-charging road in the U.S., and it exists to be used, not just stared at on a lab bench.
How Detroit’s Electric Road Works Under the Asphalt
The tech comes from Electreon, an Israeli company already testing similar setups in Sweden and Israel. Their Michigan Central project plants inductive charging coils under the surface of 14th Street. A compatible EV carries a…..