The Versailles-Satory charging infrastructure for Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer systems testing

EVS32, 32nd Electric Vehicle Symposium, Lyon, FRANCE, 19-/05/2019 - 22/05/2019An experimental road concept has been implemented in Versailles Satory, France by the French research Institut e VEDECOM. Its design aims at providing a convenient test facility to develop and assess the performances of Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer (DWPT) prototype systems for Electric Vehicle (EV). A first system developed by Qualcomm CDMA Technologies GmbH (Qu alcomm) was implemented and integrated in the VEDECOM experimental track and in two prototype Renault cars in the framework of the FABRIC European project [1]. This paper describes the original experimental investiga tions aiming to characterize the performances of such a prototype system in real driving conditions. One prototype vehicle was defined and implemented with a complete instrumentation e nabling collection of energy transfer, misalignments and air gap data. R esults are presented and discussed in a large range of real driving conditions The demonstrations performed during the FABRIC project have shown feasibility of DWPT in different use cases, including high power (20 kW), from stationary to high speed (100 km/h) and with two cars scenario