Abstract: Owning an electrically-powered vehicle or plug-in hybrid requires the owner to plug the vehicle into an electrical outlet every so often in order to re-charge the battery. Present methods to eliminate this chore have shortcomings. A typical robotic arm used has multiple servo motors for manipulation in 3 dimensions and rely on a camera and image processing for sensory inputs, making the system costly and error-prone. Or, the driver is required to dock the vehicle. The invention herein greatly simplifies the system by relying on a power source supplying an in-ground line of contacts and a pantograph, which is at right angles to this line, being lowered from the vehicle onto it. The two lines intersect at some point. Electronic signals sent through the contacts enable the power source subsystem to provide a charging voltage to the appropriate contact, thus completing a vehicle battery-charging circuit.