UBC researchers develop wireless recharging station for electric
cars   The technology has been successfully tested on UBC
service vehicles   METRO VANCOUVER -- University of British
Columbia researchers have developed a wireless charging device
for electric cars that could get more of these vehicles on the
road.  The technology has been successfully tested on UBC
service vehicles and given rave reviews by drivers who no longer
have to wrestle with cords and sockets in often cramped
conditions and bad weather.  Instead, all they have to do is
drive up to one of the four charging devices installed at UBC’s
building operations lot and park. The car fully recharges in
four hours, roughly the same amount of time it takes with an
electrical outlet. It is then good to go for eight hours.  The
system can withstand all kinds of weather.  The device was
developed by a team led by UBC physics Prof. Lorne Whitehead who
were originally working on a system that would work with medical
devices such as implanted pacemakers.