# Electric Vehicle-Charging Roads Electroad is Testing Roadways That Will Charge Electric Vehicles By Joey Haar | Published 2017-05-17 | Autos Source: Trend Hunter, https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/electroad References: [digitaltrends](https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/israel-roads-wirelessly-charging/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=webfeeds) Electric vehicles are continuing to grow in popularity as engineers and automakers solve the technological issues around things like [range and power source limitations](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/ultrafast-charging-systems), and Electroad is an Israeli technology company preparing for the inevitable future in which electric vehicles dominate the roads. The company has developed a surface material to go on roads that can charge electric vehicles while they drive over top of it, essentially solving the two problems named above if implemented on a broad scale. Electroad's tech is more than just a theory. The Israeli government has announced that it will run a pilot program with the charging roads on a half-mile strip in Tel Aviv. Though most cars aren't currently equipped to reap the benefits, the city's public buses (which are EVs themselves) will be charged by the road. ## Trend Insights (Trend Hunter) - Score: 2.1/10 - Popularity: 19% | Activity: 37% | Freshness: 8% - Audience gender: 50% men, 50% women - Primary generations: Millennial, Gen X - Top markets: Asia ## Categories [Trend Hunter](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends) > [Autos](https://www.trendhunter.com/autos) ## Key Themes ### What's Driving This Trend - **Electric Vehicle-charging Roads:** Implementing electric vehicle-charging roads presents a disruptive innovation opportunity to revolutionize the transportation industry and overcome current limitations in range and power source. - **EV Infrastructure:** Developing an extensive electric vehicle infrastructure, including charging roads, offers a disruptive innovation opportunity to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles and support their widespread use. - **Wireless Charging Technology:** Advancing wireless charging technology for electric vehicles presents a disruptive innovation opportunity to enhance convenience and eliminate the need for physical charging infrastructure. ### Who This Affects Most - **Transportation:** The transportation industry can benefit from the implementation of electric vehicle-charging roads as a disruptive innovation that enables sustainable and efficient electric vehicle integration. - **Energy:** The energy industry can explore disruptive innovation opportunities by incorporating electric vehicle-charging roads into smart city infrastructure, promoting renewable energy use, and reducing dependence on fossil fuels. - **Infrastructure:** The infrastructure industry can seize disruptive innovation opportunities by integrating electric vehicle-charging roads into urban planning and designing future-proof transportation networks. ## Related on Trend Hunter - [Induction-Charging EV Systems](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/inductev.md) - [Automatic EV Charging Systems](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/witricity.md) - [Compact EV Chargers](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/ev-chargers.md) - [Intelligent Grid-Reactive EV Chargers](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/smart-ev-charging-technology.md) - [Wireless Electric Taxi Chargers](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/wireless-ev-charging.md) - [Pole-Mounted EV Chargers](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/national-grid.md) - [Sustainable EV Charging Stations](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/change-wind-corporation.md) - [Circular Electric Vehicle Chargers](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/bidirectional-ev-charger.md) - [Ethiopian EV Charging Solutions](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/ethio-telecom.md)