Saturday, 3 June 2017

Electric road in operation

Around the same time last year, the so claimed world’s first electric road opened in central Sweden, it is a 2-kilometre strip on the motor way where trucks can switch to non-fossil energy (through the pantograph power collector on the top). This was reported as a pioneer technology for sustainable energy and a milestone for the renewable energy transportation, however I was deeply confused.
I am confused not because this technique is too difficult for my brain, but because such “hybrid” vehicles was running everywhere in my city while I was a child, and since when it became a ground-breaking technique again in the western world?
Characterised by the two long “plait” on top of the bus, the electric driven buses were used for decades in China and are still in use in some cities. This might not be driven by a green source of electric power such as solar power, however electric is electric, I have no idea how an ancient technique can be repacked as an evolutionary renewable energy solution.
Well, I guess it’s not always about true or false in the massive “green” energy industry, decorated ideas that attract more funding and profits play a more important role.

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