Sweden Tests a New “Electric Highway” in Bid to Replace Fossil Fuels

[ScienceRocks]

Sweden Tests a New “Electric Highway” in Bid to Replace Fossil Fuels
Sweden Tests a New "Electric Highway" in Bid to Replace Fossil Fuels
Somewhere Down the Road

Sweden is now testing a technology that allows trucks to be fed with electrical power on the go. About 160 kilometers north of Stockholm, a two-kilometer highway has been provided with overhead electrical wires to provide power to trucks that have hybrid-electric motors. The test runs from late this June up to 2018.

A current conductor on the roof, called a pantograph, allows the passage of electricity from the wires into the truck. It is designed to automatically connect while the truck runs at the speed of 90 kilometers per hour. Once the vehicle reaches the end of the test highway, it returns to diesel-electric mode.

really cool

 

[Moonglow]

To bad it isn't made like a bumper car rink...

 

[Kristian]

Bad from news. Eletric cars isn't victum.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Sweden Tests a New “Electric Highway” in Bid to Replace Fossil Fuels
Sweden Tests a New "Electric Highway" in Bid to Replace Fossil Fuels
Somewhere Down the Road

Sweden is now testing a technology that allows trucks to be fed with electrical power on the go. About 160 kilometers north of Stockholm, a two-kilometer highway has been provided with overhead electrical wires to provide power to trucks that have hybrid-electric motors. The test runs from late this June up to 2018.

A current conductor on the roof, called a pantograph, allows the passage of electricity from the wires into the truck. It is designed to automatically connect while the truck runs at the speed of 90 kilometers per hour. Once the vehicle reaches the end of the test highway, it returns to diesel-electric mode.

really cool

Europe is always decades ahead of the US. I didn't see in the article how they are generating the electricity.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Sweden Tests a New “Electric Highway” in Bid to Replace Fossil Fuels
Sweden Tests a New "Electric Highway" in Bid to Replace Fossil Fuels
Somewhere Down the Road

Sweden is now testing a technology that allows trucks to be fed with electrical power on the go. About 160 kilometers north of Stockholm, a two-kilometer highway has been provided with overhead electrical wires to provide power to trucks that have hybrid-electric motors. The test runs from late this June up to 2018.

A current conductor on the roof, called a pantograph, allows the passage of electricity from the wires into the truck. It is designed to automatically connect while the truck runs at the speed of 90 kilometers per hour. Once the vehicle reaches the end of the test highway, it returns to diesel-electric mode.

really cool

Europe is always decades ahead of the US. I didn't see in the article how they are generating the electricity.

Europe is about 60 years behind the US.

Fire code standards, hazardous waste standards, medical device and pharmaceutical standards, the list goes on and on. Our contracts with European companies always had to modify their requirements whic violated US law in those areas.

 

[Old Rocks]

Now I feel like a dummy. Of course. How simple. You have structures like that ever so many miles on the freeways, and you recharge the batteries on the go. Whether for cars or trucks. A card in the vehicle tells the utility where to send the bill. Or it could be a simple debit system. So on long hauls, you don't have to worry about where charging stations are.

 

[Old Rocks]

Sweden Tests a New “Electric Highway” in Bid to Replace Fossil Fuels
Sweden Tests a New "Electric Highway" in Bid to Replace Fossil Fuels
Somewhere Down the Road

Sweden is now testing a technology that allows trucks to be fed with electrical power on the go. About 160 kilometers north of Stockholm, a two-kilometer highway has been provided with overhead electrical wires to provide power to trucks that have hybrid-electric motors. The test runs from late this June up to 2018.

A current conductor on the roof, called a pantograph, allows the passage of electricity from the wires into the truck. It is designed to automatically connect while the truck runs at the speed of 90 kilometers per hour. Once the vehicle reaches the end of the test highway, it returns to diesel-electric mode.

really cool

Europe is always decades ahead of the US. I didn't see in the article how they are generating the electricity.

Nuclear and hydro about equal, wind 12%, and other 13%.

Electricity sector in Sweden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[IsaacNewton]

Sweden Tests a New “Electric Highway” in Bid to Replace Fossil Fuels
Sweden Tests a New "Electric Highway" in Bid to Replace Fossil Fuels
Somewhere Down the Road

Sweden is now testing a technology that allows trucks to be fed with electrical power on the go. About 160 kilometers north of Stockholm, a two-kilometer highway has been provided with overhead electrical wires to provide power to trucks that have hybrid-electric motors. The test runs from late this June up to 2018.

A current conductor on the roof, called a pantograph, allows the passage of electricity from the wires into the truck. It is designed to automatically connect while the truck runs at the speed of 90 kilometers per hour. Once the vehicle reaches the end of the test highway, it returns to diesel-electric mode.

really cool

Europe is always decades ahead of the US. I didn't see in the article how they are generating the electricity.

Nuclear and hydro about equal, wind 12%, and other 13%.

Electricity sector in Sweden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Good. I think the entire world needs to convert to nuclear (and wind and solar) and take all coal and oil burning plants offline as soon as possible. Then of course phase out nuclear as quick as possible after that.