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Long distance trucking is a grossly inefficient way to move goods from one place to another. But the state of Hesse in Germany is about to embark on a trial which could help improve that inefficiency considerably. As business Green reports, 10 km of highway in Hesse will soon be equipped with overhead charging cables to be used by hybrid trucks to run on electricity when juice is available, and to switch back to diesel when it's not. It's all part of Siemens' eHighway initiative which the company claims would double energy efficiency compared running on gas, and slash emissions even more if those cables are charged from renewables.
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German State to Electrify 10km of Highway for Overhead Charging of Trucks
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday August 17 2017, @12:21AM
Yup that's how I read it.
A ten km demonstration project which will do nothing but ugly up a highway, and not be of sufficient length to charge anything.
They will probably have to fund the addition of trolley-arms, because no trucker is going to want to shell out for that when it can only be used on this specific 10km of road.
They are planning to use something different than trolley arms because those are cantankerous. Even the pictured elevated pickup arms on the trucks are likely to rip down the wires on the first swerve to avoid some other road hazard.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.