When Apple killed the AirPower charging mat in 2019, it appeared to take the dream of charging three units directly on a single floor with it. Whereas there are many dual-phone chargers and multi-device mats that use separate cables for every part, Apple’s imaginative and prescient of a mat that may cost something you placed on it wherever you set it hasn’t fairly been realized.

Till now. On Thursday, Tesla launched the merely named Wi-fi Charging Platform in its on-line retailer. Like AirPower, it has a pair dozen charging coils beneath the floor and wishes only a single 65W cable to function. Tesla says its FreePower know-how can cost “Qi-capable units corresponding to telephones or earbuds positioned wherever on its floor with out exact alignment.” A view exhibits it working in an identical option to AirPower, with as much as three units charging on the identical time.

Tesla describes the design as “composed of an aluminum housing, premium Alcantara floor, and a removable magnetic stand that permits you to lay the charger flat or at an angle for higher viewing.” It says it’s impressed by “the angular design and metallic styling of Cybertruck.” The images of the machine present it charging iPhones and AirPods alongside an Apple Magic Keyboard and iMac. It’s uncertain that it may possibly additionally cost an Apple Watch as AirPower was supposedly in a position to do.

AirPower was introduced alongside the iPhone X in September 2017 however by no means acquired off the bottom. Some months after its unveiling, studies started circling of overheating points and the undertaking was canceled a 12 months later, in March 2019.

We by no means knew the worth of AirPower, however we assumed it might be no less than $149. Tesla’s charger prices twice that, at $300. In order for you one, you may preorder now for delivery in February.