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25 AutoData | April 2018 Ah, the electric induction because of the glamour that can suggest the transmissions sponsored by the FIA, the International Federation of Automobilism, of this new category in the TV. At the Santiago, Chile stage, it was possible to learn a lot about the vanguard of electric cars. There you can find, for example, that Williams is the supplier of the batteries of all forty racing cars used in Formula E. And that McLaren will provide a new generation of these batteries next season, with enough autonomy to reduce to twenty the number of cars used in the race - that is, eliminating the car exchange that currently happens because the battery charge lasts only half a GP. Yes, they are the same Williams and McLaren Formula 1 teams. And with the full support of Jean Todt, the French president of the FIA, who was happily walking on the starting grid in Santiago. No wonder, the professionals who have worked for years at the cutting edge of automotive technology, which Formula 1 has always been a protagonist, must know that participating in the future of mobility is always a good business. During the tour of the pits it was possible to see an unsuspecting man who almost stepped on a metal plate while the exuberant BMW i8 Safety Car of Formula E maneuvered to position itself just above it - which made it clear how some new businesses that Formula E live with are still unknown to many. The plate was the Chargemaster Qualcomm, an induction power transfer system that makes the Safety Car Hybrid plug-in be charged without cables. Just park the car underneath itand the system does the rest alone. The induction technology applied in this system allows 80% of the vehicle’s battery to be available in just one hour of charging. Recently used to power smartphones - induction chargers are available in some vehicles like the Chevrolet Equinoxx and Peugeot 3008, but only for Android systems - the Qualcomm prototype shows how much the speed has increased in introducing new solutions to the challenges of electrification . that charges the station reduces the load from 350 KW to 200 KW.” The near future presents the possibility of anabolizing the distribution systems offering greater support for the passage of electric current. In this way the operation of full recharge of the battery could even take the same time of the supply of the traditional vehicles, in the stations of fuels: “This will happen: with the technology available. There is no problem to increase the battery voltage to 1.2 thousandWand then at the same time increase the electri- cal current which, in the end, can generate power from 600 to 700 KW”. ABB’s vice president of communication for technology and innovation, two areas involved in building this new momentum towards zero-emission mobility, believes that in the next five years therewill be con- sumer awareness of the supply of products and services through technologies more robust, reliable and adaptable to people’s needs. That they are already there. Disclousure/Formula E