Tired of cables cluttering your car? General Motors thinks its a big enough problem to invest $5 million in the wireless charging start-up Powermat and equip it on the Chevrolet Volt in 2012.
For those unfamiliar with inductive charging, users can place their smartphone, MP3 player or portable gaming device on a special panel and an electromagnetic field transfers energy to the battery to charge the device. Powermat was one of the first companies to commercialize the technology and GM has signed a one-year exclusivity agreement to supply its vehicles with the system. What vehicles the General plans to install the system remains to be seen, but the Volt will be the first out of the gate.
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