Zero Emissions: Sweden Just Opened The World's First "Electric Highway"

<![endif] News AR / VR Awesome Earth & Energy Enhanced Humans Hard Science Industrial Rev 2.0 Moonshots Network Society Off World Robot Intelligence Infographics Daily Infographics This Week in Science Facts & Quotes Videos Sign In Earth & Energy Daniel Cooper In Brief Sweden is testing out the world's first "electric highway" that has a series of wires hanging overhead that pantograph-equipped trucks can connect to. Sweden is testing the world’s first electric highway for trucks. A 1.2-mile road stretch has a series of wires hanging overhead that a pantograph-equipped truck can connect to. When the trucks are connected, they emit zero emissions. They can go back to using diesel once they are off the power grid of the highway. The project is a collaboration between Siemens and Scania to make an eHighway that ...

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