Germany launched the first electrified truck route in the world on 7 May 2019, using overhead power lines supplied by renewable energy sources to cut emissions significantly in the local area.
The system designed by Siemens uses similar technology to that seen on electric railways in Europe to connect the hybrid trucks to the power. While operating on electricity the maximum speed the lorries can travel is 90 kph (56 mph).
The German government has invested €70 million ($77 million) to develop trucks that can use the system and with power lines now installed on a 10-kilometer stretch of road between the freight hub at Frankfurt Airport and an industrial park....
Siemens' eHighway hybrid truck technology.
Image sourced from Pixabay
...MUCH MORE
Independent of fossil fuels except for whatever is running through the lines. And manufacturing the lines. and the trucks.
It is not an intractable problem but electrifying the economy without hydrocarbons is a tough nut to crack.
Previously:
August 2017
Siemens Is Building Germany's First Electrictrified Highway
Which we illustrated with a picture of a California test project by way of Poland:
