{"id":166197,"date":"2023-06-22T08:22:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T13:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/tesla-is-looking-to-acquire-wireless-charging-startup"},"modified":"2023-06-22T08:22:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T13:22:50","slug":"tesla-is-looking-to-acquire-wireless-charging-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/tesla-is-looking-to-acquire-wireless-charging-startup","title":{"rendered":"Tesla is looking to acquire wireless charging startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-is-looking-to-acquire-wireless-charging-startup2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tesla is an interested buyer of a small Germany-based wireless charging startup following the automaker\u2019s indications that it might launch its own EV wireless charger.<\/p>\n<p>Several companies have been working on wireless charging for electric vehicles in recent years, but the technology has never taken off.<\/p>\n<p>There are several issues with it. For example, it\u2019s not as efficient as charging with a cable \u2013 though the technology has been closing the gap in recent years. It\u2019s also more expensive, as you generally have to embed a charging pad securely in the ground instead of just mounting a charger on the wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla is an interested buyer of a small Germany-based wireless charging startup following the automaker\u2019s indications that it might launch its own EV wireless charger. Several companies have been working on wireless charging for electric vehicles in recent years, but the technology has never taken off. There are several issues with it. For example, it\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166197","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}