France's A10 Motorway Is Now One Giant EV Charger

France's A10 motorway now wirelessly charges EVs at full highway speed, delivering over 200kW continuously across a live 1.5km stretch

3 Nov 2025

France has done something no country has managed before: embedded a working EV charger directly into a highway. On a 1.5-kilometer stretch of the A10 motorway near Paris, induction coils buried beneath the asphalt now transfer power continuously to trucks, buses, vans, and passenger cars moving at full motorway speed. No stopping. No plugging in. Just driving.

The "Charge As You Drive" project is led by VINCI Autoroutes, France's largest toll road operator, alongside wireless charging specialist Electreon and with backing from Bpifrance, the country's public investment bank. Independent testing by Gustave Eiffel University confirmed average continuous power delivery above 200 kW, with peaks exceeding 300 kW. That's roughly twice what a fully loaded heavy-duty truck needs to stay charged across the same distance. It's also the first real-world, independently verified result at highway scale.

The freight industry has the most to gain here. Heavy electric trucks face a stubborn set of commercial obstacles: bulky batteries, limited range, and charging downtime that quietly eats into fleet efficiency. A road that replenishes energy in transit reshapes the economics. Smaller battery packs become viable. Operating costs drop. The stop-and-recharge cycle that makes electric freight operationally messy disappears. For logistics operators watching diesel competitors move faster and cheaper, the gap just got a little narrower.

France's Ministry of Transport has already set a target of 9,000 kilometers of Electric Road System infrastructure by 2035, and the A10 pilot is the first live piece of that puzzle. VINCI Autoroutes is evaluating an extension along the Orléans-to-Paris corridor as a likely next phase.

What makes the A10 result significant beyond France is the question it answers for the wider sector. Dynamic wireless charging has existed as a concept for years. It has worked in labs, in controlled trials, under optimistic conditions. The A10 demonstrates it works on a live motorway, in mixed traffic, at scale. That distinction matters enormously to the engineers and investors deciding where to place bets on electrified freight corridors across Europe. The road itself, it turns out, can be part of the solution.