CHIBA, Japan -- A city near Tokyo has become the first in Japan to test technology that allows electric vehicles to recharge wirelessly while being driven on public roads.
10-second jolt can power a car to drive about 1 km in city near Tokyo

Hiroshi Fujimoto, a professor in the University of Tokyo's Advanced Energy Department, shows wireless recharging equipment underneath an electric vehicle at an Oct. 3 event. (Photo by Yoshino Sakurai)
CHIBA, Japan -- A city near Tokyo has become the first in Japan to test technology that allows electric vehicles to recharge wirelessly while being driven on public roads.