Reported on April 15th by the British media, the world’s first road that allows electric vehicles to be charged while driving was built in Sweden.
According to a report from the UK’s “Isle of the Independents” website on April 13th, this track is about 1.2 miles (approximately 1.9 kilometers) long and was built on a highway outside Stockholm. There are plans to promote it to Sweden and the whole world.
The principle of this electrified highway is to install a movable connecting arm at the bottom of an electric car or electric truck, and to input the energy of the electric rail into the car through the connecting arm.
When the car is driving above the power rail, the connecting arm can automatically detect and connect the power rail. When overtaking, the connecting arm will automatically lift. The power rail is connected to the power grid and divided into several segments, only when the vehicle passes over the track. Will power up.
This device can calculate the energy consumed by each passing car, and counts the electricity charge in the name of each user.
As part of the project, the researchers also developed several electric trucks. Currently, they are testing the electrified highway through these trucks.
Hans Sel, chairman of the eRoadArlanda Group, which is responsible for the project, said: “The most important issue of this era is how to achieve non-fossil fuel road transport. We now have a viable solution, which is amazing.'
He said: 'Sweden's technology is leading the world. We hope to promote it to the whole country and the world.'
The advantage of electrified roads is that they require minimal changes to existing infrastructure to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions.
In the field of clean energy, Sweden is already the world leader. In 2015, Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Levin announced that Sweden needs to be the first to become a welfare state without fossil fuels.
Including this project of eRoadArlanda, the Swedish Transport Authority is currently trying multiple electrified road projects.
The Swedish government is making more extensive efforts to get the country's transportation completely out of fossil fuels by 2030. At present, road traffic accounts for one-third of Sweden's carbon emissions.
The project staff estimates that only major changes in the road segment, which accounts for about 3% of the total length of the road network, can significantly reduce carbon emissions. As for the scattered road sections between the main road sections, the car can run on battery power.
