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Sweden will open a stretch of highway in 2025 on which electric vehicles will charge themselves while driving. The Swedish Trafikverket has big plans for ‘electrified highways’.
Euronews reports that Sweden is building highways where electric vehicles can charge themselves while driving from 2025. It concerns the E20 highway that connects logistics hubs between Hallsberg and Örebro. It is not yet certain which technology will be used for the ‘electrified highway’. An induction system is one of the possibilities, but also a system in which vehicles – in particular freight traffic – draw their power from power lines above the highway.
The section of motorway appears to be mainly interesting for freight traffic, but may also offer opportunities for electric passenger cars in the future. Trafikverket, the Swedish Transport Agency, started years ago with the first practical tests with highways where electric vehicles can charge while driving.
The Swedish Transport Agency (traffic traffic) started a pilot project in 2018 in which electric vehicles could charge via an electric ‘rail’ in the road. In 2020, Trafikverket built an ‘induction track’ for freight traffic in Visby. According to Euronews, Sweden plans to have some 3,000 kilometers of ‘electrified highway’ operational by 2045. Sweden is cooperating in this area with Germany and France, among others.
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl