OLEV Bus, wireless charging system electric vehicles/ Gumi, South Korea

(Press Release courtesy of KAIST PR Office) Online Electric Vehicle (OLEV), One Step Closer to Mass Transit System For the first time anywhere, electric buses which can be charged wirelessly on the road start to run inner city roads. The Online Electric Vehicle (OLEV), developed by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and commercialized by DongwonOLEV, Inc., is an electric vehicle that can be charged while stationary or driving, thus removing the need to stop at a charging station. Likewise, an OLEV tram does not require pantographs to feed power from electric wires strung above the tram route. Following the development and operation of commercialized OLEV trams (at an amusement park in Seoul) and shuttle buses (at KAIST campus), respectively, the city of Gumi in South Korea, beginning on August 6th, is providing its citizens with OLEV public transportation services. Two OLEV buses will run an inner city route between Gumi Train Station and In-dong district, for