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Leon Poultney

Tesla says it’s working on wireless inductive charging for EVs – but is that a good idea?

Tesla Wireless Charging .

In true Tesla form, a company spokesperson appears to have inadvertently confirmed that it is working on a technology that will allow future Tesla models to be charged wirelessly, using inductive technology.

Rather than make the statement publicly though a press release (tricky when you nuked much of your press department back in 2020), the information was subtly dropped into an interview segment with Jay Leno (via Electrek), where Tesla chief designer Franz von Holzhausen told the former Tonight Show host: "We are working on inductive charging. You don’t even need to plug anything in at that point. You just drive over the pad in your garage and you start charging." 

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