Trials will take place later this year to develop a left-hand lane for drivers to swoop over and wirelessly top up their batteries while on the move.

The artist's impression of the bright green "re-charge" lane is an almost exact replica of the energy-giving lanes in Super Nintendo game, F-Zero, from 1990.

And the game seems to have unwittingly predicted the future, as experts say nearly every car will be electric or ultra-low emission by 2050 - meaning developments need to get under way.

At the moment the 2015 Nissan Leaf can travel 84 miles on a single charge, while the Tesla Model Scan do 230 miles with a 70 kWh battery.

Charging stations are few and far between in the UK, making it even more difficult to drive completely "green" - but if the motorway lanes are rolled out it will soon be easier to top up an electric car than a petrol or diesel one.

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