The charging system was pioneered by Arup-backed New Zealand start-up HaloIPT, which was purchased by mobile technologies company Qualcomm on Tuesday for an undisclosed sum.
Rather like an electric toothbrush, the system uses inductive power transfer to charge batteries via a magnetic field, meaning that electric cars can simply park over a charging pad rather than having to plug in.
"Whenever you make something wireless it increases adoption as it makes everything so much easier," Andrew Gilbert, executive vice president of European innovation development at Qualcomm, told BusinessGreen. "Wireless will revolutionise how people use [charging points]."
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