WIRELESS CHARGING IN AUTOMATED PARKING GARAGES

Disclosed herein is a system for wireless power transmission (WPT) inductive charging batteries of an electric vehicle (EV) while parked in an automated parking garage, the system including primary coils and secondary coils. The primary coils are permanently attached to structural elements that define each of the parking spaces in the garage to which electricity is transferred from the grid. In non-pallet garages secondary coils are temporarily attached to the exterior of each EV that has to be charged by the system. In pallet garages the secondary coil is permanently attached to each pallet in the system during the initial installation of the system in the garage. In embodiments of the system the same supporting electronics are used for several primary coils. Embodiments of the system are configured to allow bi-directional, i.e. grid to vehicle (G2V) and vehicle to grid (V2G), transfer of power.