Lithium is also much better for short, intermittent charging cycles without ruining completely the battery life.Īs soon as the two plates (or pads) are aligned with each other, the systems start talking with a wireless signal. This is a perfect match because lithium technology is also much more convenient and better suited for fast and powerful charging cycles. They are also changing from the old traditional lead acid batteries into lithium batteries. The four founders found actually that there is a business, or there is actually an industry, that is transitioning to electrical power and that’s, the industry of industrial forklift e-vehicles.Īutomatic Guided Vehicles (AGVs) and Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) mainly run on batteries. However, as we all know, e-mobility in cars, besides Tesla, is still on a very small market. Electromobility (e-mobility) was the first real application market because that was where they were working and researching. This was some kind of a world record and an official start of the whole Wiferion story. During their research, they actually found a solution to transfer 22 kilowatts of power over a gap of 20 centimeters, with an efficiency of 95%. Two other guys were working on a project doing an inductive charging solution for an electric vehicle. For example, how to optimize the transfer of DC current to AC current and how to get the best energy out of sunlight. In our case, there were four people actually working on optimizing solar energy converters. They invest in research and development, and the idea is to transfer these solutions into businesses. The Fraunhofer Institutes, for example, were heavily involved in the development of the MP3 file format or high efficient solar power inverters. The Fraunhofer Institute is a huge institution and organization that has many, many different locations and different topics of research. It has one of the biggest research institutes for solar power, called the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE). This area of Germany is known as the most sunny place in Germany. If you drive 30, 40 minutes in either direction, then you’re in another country, which is of course one of the loveliest parts of Europe. It’s on the borders of Switzerland and France. We are a small company of roughly 40 people based in a very small town in Germany called Freiburg. Julian Seume: Let’s start from the beginning. Mobile Robot Guide (MRG): Can you give our audience an overview of Wiferion, who you are, and how you got started?
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