Wireless Charging

 

Why the old charging model falls short

EVs aren’t the future—they’re already here. From suburban driveways to dense city streets, electric cars, vans, buses, and trucks are quickly becoming the norm. But charging? That’s where things start to fall apart.

Plug-in stations still fail nearly half the time, mostly due to hardware or payment glitches (INSIDEEVS). And the industry’s current workarounds—bigger batteries and ultra-fast chargers—solve one issue but create others. Bigger batteries mean more range, but also more cost, more weight, and a heavier environmental footprint.

Ford Transit shuttle van charging wirelessly with Electreon’s stationary charging while parked at the “Triangle” in Detroit, Michigan (credit: Micky)

Ultra-fast chargers? They come with serious baggage. A single 1.2 MW charger powering one vehicle’s battery can consume as much electricity in an hour as two or three homes use in an entire month. Scaling that kind of demand is pricey, complex, and unsustainable.

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Why? Because the approach mirrors gas stations: stop, charge, go. But EVs aren’t gas cars, and the grid isn’t built for this kind of strain.

So what kind of charging model actually works—for cities, fleets, and the grid?

Wireless charging: A smarter, scalable alternative

Electreon, a company based in Beit Yanai, Israel, has developed a wireless EV charging system that makes the road itself part of the energy solution. Using coils embedded beneath the pavement, Electreon’s system sends power wirelessly to vehicles—whether they’re driving, crawling through traffic, or parked.

It’s powered by a technology called Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer (DWPT), which uses magnetic induction to transfer energy from road to vehicle. Think wireless phone charging—only scaled up for electric cars, delivery vans, buses, and trucks.

Wherever the vehicle is, it charges automatically. Commuters top up while circling for parking. Buses charge while boarding passengers. Vans fill up while stopped at the depot. No cables. No waiting. No hassle.

This continuous charging model keeps vehicles moving while easing grid pressure. A cloud-based platform manages it all, scheduling charging during off-peak hours to cut costs and improve efficiency. That means lower TCO, less battery wear, and reliable charging even in dense, high-traffic areas.

And because the infrastructure is safely embedded in the road, it’s tamper-proof and nearly maintenance-free—unlike plug-in stations that regularly break down. 

One system for every EV

Electreon’s system works across vehicle types: buses, trucks, taxis, ride-hailing fleets, delivery vans, and private cars all share the same invisible infrastructure. Whether installed on roads, in parking lots, or at curbsides, the setup is universal and cost-effective.

Deploying the tech along busy routes used by a mix of vehicles boosts efficiency and makes the model financially viable—especially for fleet-heavy operations like BRT lines, last-mile delivery, or shared mobility. And it’s fully automated—no driver input needed.

The company recently announced plans to launch a home charger, extending its wireless technology to private EVs, making the offering even more compelling for everyday drivers.

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Flexible business models also make it easier to adopt. Operators can pay per charge, like a utility, or opt for Charging-as-a-Service (CaaS), with a fixed monthly fee that covers energy and software. The system can be licensed to public and private partners to support broader rollout and shared investment.  

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Electreon’s tech is already on the ground. It will charge Haifa’s Metronit BRT lines, already powers Electra Afikim’s depot in Rosh Ha’ayin, and will soon operate lines near Petach Tikva’s Grand Mall. In the U.S., it’s deployed beneath the country’s first public wireless charging road in Michigan and keeping UCLA’s campus shuttles moving—right on time for the 2028 Olympics.

In Germany, it’s supporting electric freight along the Bavarian autobahn. And leading automakers have already partnered with Electreon to integrate the technology into new EVs and retrofit existing ones. With policy support from Michigan’s innovation corridor and EU transport initiatives, the momentum is growing. 

Built for the future

According to the IEA, by 2030, one in three new buses sold globally will be electric. By 2035, EVs are expected to make up 25% of all vehicles on the road. And a 2025 McKinsey survey found that 38% of non-EV owners are ready to switch—if charging improves.

Wireless charging may be the missing link—not just to EV adoption, but to a better EV experience.

As the world shifts to electric, and vehicles begin to drive themselves, Electreon’s system is already built for what comes next: always on, always ready, and invisible by design.

It’s not just a glimpse of the future. It’s infrastructure that finally fits how we move.

Ad Technology

 

The U.S. Justice Department is doubling down on its attempt to break up Google by asking a federal judge to force the company to part with some of the technology powering the company’s digital ad network. The proposed dismantling coincides with an ongoing federal effort to separate Google’s Chrome browser from its dominant search engine.

The government’s latest proposal was filed late Monday in a Virginia federal court two-and-half weeks after a federal judge ruled that its lucrative digital ad network has been improperly abusing its market power to stifle competition to the detriment of online publishers.

In a 17-page filing, Justice Department lawyers argued that U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema should punish Google by ordering the company to offload its AdX business and DFP ad platform, tools that bring together advertisers, who want to market their products, and publishers, who want to sell commercial space on their sites, to bring in revenue.

The government also is seeking other restrictions, including a 10-year ban on Google from operating a digital ad exchange, to undercut the power of a “recidivist monopolist.”

Thomas Sankara

 

People gather for a wreath laying ceremony in front of the building where Thomas Sankara was assassinated in 1987 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, April 6, 2022, after the verdict of the trial of his assassination. A Burkina Faso military tribunal sentenced ex-President Blaise Compaore to life imprisonment for complicity in the murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara and for undermining state security. Compaore was tried in absentia as he has been in exile in Ivory Coast since he was toppled from power by a popular uprising in 2014. Photo: AP Photo/Sophie Garcia

The military government of Burkina Faso recently said that its intelligence service had thwarted a coup attempt and alleges it was plotted in the Ivory Coast.

Reflecting on the Interim President Ibrahim Traoré, a captain in the military who came to power during a 2022 coup, you can’t help but see Traore as trying to fill the very large shoes of his assassinated predecessor, Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara.

Murdered during the overthrow of his government, Sankara was a military captain, pan-Africanist theorist, and served as president of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. He was born in 1949.

Sankara was “viewed by supporters as a charismatic and iconic figure of revolution, he is commonly referred to as ‘Africa’s Che Guevara,’” according to Facts about Thomas Sankara on ThomasSankara.net. 

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In a message delivered at Wellesley College in Boston years ago, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan discussed the importance of some of Africa’s revolutionary leaders, including Sankara.

Minister Farrakhan said, “We are not oppressed because we are Black; we are oppressed because we are ignorant. It is ignorance that keeps us on the bottom, not Blackness.”

In recapping the message Minister Farrakhan delivered at Wellesley College, in a 2019 edition of Zimbabwe’s The Herald (herald.co.zw) titled “Black ignorance, not black skin,” the author of the article wrote what he gleaned from Minister Farrakhan’s remarks.

“The west did not agree to work with Kwame Nkrumah, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Thomas Sankara, Samora Machel, Patrice Lumumba, Julius Nyerere, Haile Selassie, Kenneth Kaunda or Robert Mugabe,” wrote Reason Wafawarova, a political writer based in Sydney, Australia.

“These are some of our African nationalists who sought to head the economic affairs of the African continent and they were castigated, demonized, assassinated, murdered in cold blood, and discredited as examples never to be followed,” Wafawarova wrote.

Sankara was once such a leader.

According to wilsoncenter.org, Sankara gave Burkina Faso its name, meaning “land of honest people” in the majority Mooré language. He rose to power at the age of 33 in a coup led by junior army officers in 1983. “Once in control, he set in motion efforts to dramatically reconfigure social and economic relations in his country’s conservative society.

He aimed to eliminate the state’s foreign debt, to attain food self-sufficiency, and to curtail the influence of the French, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank,” noted wilsoncenter.org.

Explaining the substance of his mission, Sankara said in 1984 to the United Nations General Assembly, “We had to take the lead of the peasant uprisings in the countryside, threatened by desertification, exhausted by hunger and thirst,” as he outlined the vision of his popular revolution.

“We had to give some sense of meaning to the revolts of the unemployed urban masses, frustrated and tired of seeing the limousines of the alienated élite flash by, following the head of State, who offered them only false solutions devised and conceived in the brains of others,” he added.

Sankara’s subsequent political reforms included removing Burkina Faso’s traditional leaders, and also radical cuts to government spending, which he considered wasteful.

According to ThomasSankara.net on its facts page, his other accomplishments included:

– He initiated a nationwide literacy campaign, increasing the literacy rate from 13% in 1983 to 73% in 1987.

– He planted over 10 million trees to prevent desertification

– He built roads and a railway to tie the nation together, without foreign aid.

– He appointed women to high governmental positions, encouraged them to work, recruited them into the military, and granted pregnancy leave during education.

– He outlawed female genital mutilation, forced marriages and polygamy in support of women’s rights.

– He sold off the government fleet of Mercedes cars and made the Renault 5 (the cheapest car sold in Burkina Faso at that time) the official service car of the ministers.

– He reduced the salaries of all public servants, including his own, and forbade the use of government chauffeurs and first-class airline tickets.

– He redistributed land from the feudal landlords and gave it directly to the peasants. Wheat production rose in three years, making the country food self-sufficient.

– He opposed foreign aid, saying that “he who feeds you, controls you.”

– He spoke in forums like the Organization of African Unity against continued neo-colonialist penetration of Africa through Western trade and finance. He called for a united front of African nations to repudiate their foreign debt. He argued that the poor and exploited did not have an obligation to repay money to the rich and those who exploited them.

However, according to TRT Afrika, in an article headlined “How Thomas Sankara’s legacy continues to shape politics in Burkina Faso,” over time, “a group of high-ranking officials, including his former colleague Blaise Compaoré, did not support his progressive policies.

These sentiments led to the division of the military into two main factions, with one supporting Sankara and the other siding with Compaoré. With significant foreign support and a local military advantage in Burkina Faso, Sankara was eventually assassinated in a bloody coup led by Compaoré in 1987.”

Compaoré was later handed a life sentence in absentia, after fleeing to the Ivory Coast, for the murder of Sankara, reported Reuters.

“After his death, Sankara’s body was hurriedly buried in a mass grave in the Dagnoën neighborhood of Ouagadougou. It wasn’t until 2014, during the popular uprising that toppled his successor, Compaoré, that his slogans began to echo in the streets again, and under Traoré, Sankara has been officially recognized as the first national hero of the country.

Boulevard Charles de Gaulle has been renamed Thomas Sankara Boulevard, and his remains were exhumed and reburied in a more dignified space,” noted ThomasSankara.net.

Francis Kéré, the first African architect born in Burkina Faso to win the Pritzker prize, when he was presented the “Nobel Prize of Architecture” in 2022, was awarded the project of designing a mausoleum in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, to honor the life, legacy and memory of Thomas Sankara.

R - One - U Mine

Would not you like to replace the hell that is on the earth with a heavenly life? Would you not like to see your children grow up in a more peaceful environment? What will you give to see such a heavenly state come into existence? The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that,  “He would give all that He has and all within His power to see such a day when Satan’s world will be destroyed and a better world come into existence.”

Every one of us as men should say with Him that,  “I will give all that I have and all within my power to produce a heavenly life for myself, family and the unborn generation yet to come.”

Heaven Lies at the Foot of Mother.  This means that we must help in the production of a righteous woman. As men, we must know that the little girls that come into this world come in pure and we as husbands, father, brothers, uncles and cousins must commit ourselves to protect the purity of females that we come in contact with, particularly fathers, uncles, and brothers, for, oft-times it is family members that are destroying the virtue of our young girls.

Heaven Lies at the Foot of Mother.  We will never have a heavenly life until we have Godly females who love God with their heart, soul, mind, and strength, and, who will never come down from the elevated place that God desires for the female. If she is elevated in consciousness, filled with the Word and Spirit of God, filled with the knowledge of self and God, then, when she is with child we can expect that she will be like Mary, a good mother. Heaven lies at her feet, which means that children must be in submission to the Godly woman to let her shape and mould them into good boys and girls. The scripture teaches,  “Train up a child in the way he should go and, when he is old, he will not depart from it.”   Then and only then can we produce the heavenly life on earth. Then and only then can we as a nation ascend to that elevated place and witness the Kingdom of God on earth. Then and only then, we will be in the Hereafter where there will be no vain discourse and everywhere we look we will see and hear nothing but peace, peace, peace.

Heaven Lies at the Foot of Mother.