{"id":5998,"date":"2017-09-28T08:11:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T15:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=5998"},"modified":"2017-09-27T19:16:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T02:16:06","slug":"bmw-plans-wireless-charging-for-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/28\/bmw-plans-wireless-charging-for-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW plans wireless charging for cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where phone have led, cars will follow\u2014first becoming malleable, software-centric platforms (e.g. Tesla rolling out Autopilot, improving cars\u2019 acceleration, etc.), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/9\/27\/16374254\/amazon-event-2017-news-recap-echo-spot-fire-tv-hardware\">integrating voice assistants<\/a>, and now <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/bmw-is-releasing-a-wireless-charging-pad-in-2018\/\">adopting contactless charging<\/a>. Sure, poking a plug into my car takes all of 15 seconds, but I\u2019ll admit to being a touch jealous:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GlrcPrzuPMM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When approaching the pad, the 530e\u2019s sensors and internal screen will navigate the driver to the necessary point above the charging pad. Once in position, the pad\u2019s integrated coil, alongside a secondary coil found inside the car, generate an alternating magnetic field that will charge the car\u2019s 9.4kWh battery in 3.5 hours with 3.2kW of power. The entire process can even be monitored via an app.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/NewImage-29.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"600\" height=\"319\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GlrcPrzuPMM\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where phone have led, cars will follow\u2014first becoming malleable, software-centric platforms (e.g. Tesla rolling out Autopilot, improving cars\u2019 acceleration, etc.), integrating voice assistants, and now adopting contactless charging. Sure, poking a plug into my car takes all of 15 seconds, but I\u2019ll admit to being a touch jealous: When approaching the pad, the 530e\u2019s sensors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5998"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6002,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5998\/revisions\/6002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}