Researchers are testing out a highway to charge your EV while you drive [Video]

One of the biggest downsides of owning an electric vehicle is having to stop and charge it, but a group of researchers out of Indiana wants to change that.

The solution? Highways that can wirelessly charge your EV while you drive, even at high speeds.

Engineers at Purdue University and the Indiana Department of Transportation announced last week that they’re developing a section of highway that could charge electric vehicles, even electric semitrucks, while they drive at 65 mph.

Construction begins Monday on the quarter-mile test section of US Route 231/Route 52 in West Lafayette, Indiana, the university said in a press release.

The patent-pending technology works like this: Engineers install transmitter coils beneath the highway pavement, and those coils send energy through a magnetic field to receiver coils that must be installed on the bottoms of the electric vehicles.

Because a successful …