{"id":117746,"date":"2020-12-29T09:23:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T17:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/volkswagens-vision-of-mobile-ev-charging-robot-becomes-a-reality"},"modified":"2020-12-29T09:23:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T17:23:21","slug":"volkswagens-vision-of-mobile-ev-charging-robot-becomes-a-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/volkswagens-vision-of-mobile-ev-charging-robot-becomes-a-reality","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen\u2019s vision of Mobile EV-Charging Robot becomes a reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fk_j1m7ck0c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Volkswagen shows mobile charging robot for fully autonomous charging of electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A year ago, Volkswagen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/vw-mobile-charging-station-recharges-electric-cars-autonomously\/11017\/\">unveiled<\/a> its mobile charging station concept in which an autonomous robot facilitates the charging of the battery of electric cars. And now, after spending a year making the concept a reality, the automaker gives us a first glimpse of the prototypes of its mobile charging robot.<\/p>\n<p>The first working prototypes, able to revolutionize the world of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/tag\/electric-car\/\">electric cars<\/a>, has always been linked to the current scarcity of charging infrastructures. Its task \u2013 fully autonomous charging of vehicles in restricted parking areas, like underground car parks.<\/p>\n<p>The concept consists of two modules \u2013 an energy storage device trailer with a charger and a mobile robot that can tow the trailer unit to a vehicle for charging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volkswagen shows mobile charging robot for fully autonomous charging of electric vehicles. A year ago, Volkswagen unveiled its mobile charging station concept in which an autonomous robot facilitates the charging of the battery of electric cars. And now, after spending a year making the concept a reality, the automaker gives us a first glimpse of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}