New Delhi, April 8 -- April 8: An indigenously developed wireless charger for electric vehicles (EVs), capable of charging up to 90 per cent in around three hours, is set to be commercialised soon, the government announced on Monday.

According to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), the 1.5 kW wireless EV charger has been developed under the National Mission on Power Electronics Technology (NaMPET) by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Thiruvananthapuram, in collaboration with Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur.

The charger is designed to operate on a regular 230V, 50Hz AC single-phase power supply and can charge a 4.8 kWh onboard battery pack at 48V using 30A ...