The news came in the Tesla Cybertruck episode of “Jay Leno’s Garage” on YouTube, specifically during his test drive of the car with Moravy and von Holzhausen. “Oh, we’re working on the inductive charging,” explained Von Holzhausen. “So you don’t need to plug something in at that point. You just pull in your garage, drive over the pad, and you’re charging.”
Tesla had previously teased the rollout of a wireless charging mat, but this was the first time that anyone from the company had said anything about it. At the company’s Investor Day event in March, the company released a promotional image that showed something that sure looked like a charging mat in a home garage. So far, though, it’s just been a slow drip of information, but now that Tesla has talked about it, hopefully, more information will follow sooner than the nine months from the Investor Day image that today’s news took.