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Sweden has a goal of achieving a completely fossil fuel free vehicle fleet by 2030 and in order to achieve this, it has started trialling a series of projects to develop and test technologies that will enable the country to completely convert to electric vehicles.
One project includes the "eRoad" which charges electric vehicles during journeys via a rail. So far, it has cost €6.4 million ($7.7 million) to install but it's predicted that if it were implemented across the country it would eventually work out less than €1 million ($1.2 million) per kilometer to build.
The track stretches along two kilometers (1.2 miles) and has been installed on public road "893" just 30 minutes outside of Stockholm. The eRoad has many advantages, Säll says. If implemented it will mean electric vehicle batteries can be smaller -- and therefore lighter -- because they won't need to retain as much charge, the vehicles will then be cheaper to manufacture and will ultimately be more sustainable. For a heavy truck to be 100% electric, he explains, it would need a battery that weighs 40 tonnes. But if technology like the eRoad was readily available, the truck's battery would be able to weigh as little as 600 kilograms.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday April 27 2018, @02:58AM (2 children)
I don't know either - because the story comes up in English on my browser and I can see nothing in the link that points to a Swedish language version. .
(Score: 2) by looorg on Friday April 27 2018, @04:27PM (1 child)
About 1/3 down the article after the second larger image. 'eRoadArlanda' points to https://eroadarlanda.se/ [eroadarlanda.se] which shows the Swedish version, https://eroadarlanda.com [eroadarlanda.com] is the English version. Are you getting different links from CNN?
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday April 27 2018, @05:07PM
I have only provided the CNN link which, at least on my browser, points to the quoted article which is clearly written in English. We have no control over the links inside that article; the original source provides those.