Qualcomm wants to bring wireless charging to Formula E electric race cars, and probably your plug-in Prius some day too. To test the tech they’re using a tiny RC version and, naturally, racing it against the real thing. So that’s how you make recharging a battery look exciting.

Wireless charging actually is pretty cool, especially in an electric automobile application. If you’re into that kind of thing, and if you’re not .

Right now Formula E cars are plugged into generators to power up, but they’re putting wireless power into safety cars, pace cars, and experimental like this RC.

I’m almost more impressed that Formula E driver Lucas di Grassi managed to avoid running that little thing over while the two cars did donuts together. Then again the behind-the-scenes clip reveals that “eleven different RC models” were used to make the video... so maybe a few did end up under that race car’s wide tires.

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