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Cool! I did not know about the electrified truck experiments. I have lived in cities with electrified buses that pulled from overhead lines; those worked well

Cool! I did not know about the electrified truck experiments. I have lived in cities with electrified buses that pulled from overhead lines; those worked well for local routes. I wonder: * How much highway speed complicates things * How much the hardware costs for individual passenger vehicles Regardless, it would be nice to pull from the grid along the main routes; seems like an elegant solution to the range issue with electric vehicles.

Archelaos 3y ago
The main issue seems to be the cost of the power lines. According to some news articles, the cost for the test tracks was about 3 million euros per km. Cost estimates for the future assume 1 million euros per km if lines are installed on a large scale. I couldn't find anything about the opperational costs. But what I observe is that more and more test tracks open up in Germany. It seems that German industry and government see a realistic chance for this technology. Of course, this does not provide any certainty, which was demonstrated at the time with the Transrapid.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transrapid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transrapid