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Sustainable eHighways for Trucks Could Be the Answer to the Increase in Freight Transport - by Federicco Guerrini/ Tech/ Cutting Edge/ Forbes/ forbes.com
"The world’s first public road project with electrified highway trucks is being conducted in Sweden, and will soon be replicated in California as well.
Sweden’s Minister for Infrastructure Anna Johansson and the Minister of Energy Ibrahim Baylan recently inaugurated the first eHighway system on a public road, a two-kilometer stretch of the E16 highway north of Stockholm.
The trial will last two years and was born from the collaboration of Swedish truck manufacturer Scania with German company Siemens . Two diesel hybrid vehicles have been adapted to operate under a catenary system, similar to the one used by streetcars and trolleybus, which connects the vehicles to the grid, providing clean power and cutting down local emissions..."
Image credits: Scania CV AB
Richard
"The world’s first public road project with electrified highway trucks is being conducted in Sweden, and will soon be replicated in California as well.
Sweden’s Minister for Infrastructure Anna Johansson and the Minister of Energy Ibrahim Baylan recently inaugurated the first eHighway system on a public road, a two-kilometer stretch of the E16 highway north of Stockholm.
The trial will last two years and was born from the collaboration of Swedish truck manufacturer Scania with German company Siemens . Two diesel hybrid vehicles have been adapted to operate under a catenary system, similar to the one used by streetcars and trolleybus, which connects the vehicles to the grid, providing clean power and cutting down local emissions..."
Image credits: Scania CV AB
Richard