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The project is very much alive and under development.
To answer earlier questions, a structural battery is new technology and BAE are one of many companies developing it. It is quite simply a structure that can hold a charge, (i.e. bodywork). It is not a conventional battery that has been shaped to the same form as bodywork however.
Wireless charging is inductive charging. i.e. two wire coils, one under the car, the other under the track at relatively short intervals. When the car passes over the coil, an electrical charge is induced into the coil in the coil in the car creating energy which is then stored in the structural batteries. The two combinations will mean electric cars that get their energy from coils in the ground. A long way off maybe before we see it on the M1 motorway but clever tech none-the-less.
Hope this helps.
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