---
title: "England’s Electric Motorways Let You Charge as You Drive"
description: "Motorists will be able to recharge their cars as they drive if the plan proposed by Highways England goes through."
date: "2015-08-12"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Andrew Tieu"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/andrew_tieu"
url: "https://futurism.com/englands-electric-motorways-let-you-charge-as-you-drive"
categories:
  - "Advanced Transport"
  - "Electric Vehicles"
tags:
  - "transport"
---

# England’s Electric Motorways Let You Charge as You Drive

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/_84849744_84849740.jpg>)

- The government agency has announced plans to test wireless power-transfer tech that it hopes to build under the country's motorways and major A roads.
- Electric cables buried under the road are used to generate electromagnetic fields, which are picked up by a coil inside the device and converted into electricity.
- Highway England aims to run the experiments for about 18 months before deciding whether to commit itself to an on-road trial. "The potential to recharge low emission vehicles on the move offers exciting possibilities," commented Transport Minister Andrew Jones.