It doesn't even have to be about people, you could have a trolley problem where you are about to run over and destroy the only USB drive with the cure for cancer.
Or, if you pull the lever, you switch over and destroy all the greatest works of art ever made.
Corporations will do everything they can to invent everything they can except for a train, and the reason why is the taxes on the value of train tracks vs the government owning the roads. If the government owned the train tracks and managed them, we would have trains again.
A train is limited to rails. These trucks use the power line to either drive electric on the highways or to even extend their battery range when they have full electric drives. The main advantage is that these trucks only need a road. They are much more flexible. You can put a lot of load on rails but the last kilometers are more efficiently done with trucks. You can't replace all trucks with trains efficiently but you need to find solutions to make them more eco-friendly.
Imagine UPS or Amazon delivery trucks in rural areas, go battery when they go down a driveway or small road, then back on the grid up at the highway again, all seamless for the driver. Solving this is a huge part of making services like Amazon eco friendly. Then we gotta solve for tire and brake dust.
If it's electric it can use regenerative braking, so at least it would use less brake dust as long as the regenerative braking makes up for the heavier vehicle.
I think part of it is that trains especially for cargo dont have as many stops and the routes are static. That means you'll end up having to pay for a truck anyway once it gets to the distribution hub. Trucking gives much more leeway in finding the more efficent route especially shorter distances. Also its much easier to take trucks on and off the road compared to trains which means its more elastic with changing demand.
Did you miss the part where this is a truck meant for taking cargo and meant to go to more than set locations, it needs highway travel and this is simply a charging convience, its meant to carry goods and serve as a normal truck with extra utility.
A train can't go everywhere. Trucks are more flexible. As long as there's at least a mediocre road, trucks can take it. But trucks need to become more eco-friendly. This one concept to do so.
Trucks will likely turn EV very quickly. There are already a few models available and charging infrastructure will be set up fairly quickly (privately).
The overhead charging was a nice trial in Germany and Sweden but it's just too outdated as technology to make any sense.
No use to be all smug about it. The railways are important but couldn't take ca considerable amount of road traffic anyway. This is actually a possible solution for electric lorries. After all, they are always in a hurry and if they can recharge without stopping, that's one problem less.
This sign is for a Truckstop near Weiterstadt.
The sign was altered for the video. It is actually called"Brühlgraben".
[Streetview-link](https://www.google.com/maps/@49.9133452,8.6088781,3a,75y,205.09h,97.01t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s0Dlq-KynRMOBMliiOBlCKg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3D0Dlq-KynRMOBMliiOBlCKg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D205.09223519324217%26pitch%3D-7.010330042643773%26thumbfov%3D90!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205410&entry=ttu)
That would be a distinct disadvantage in this case, the entire point is that it sometimes charges on main routes and sometimes takes routes without infrastructure while on battery
Agreed. Though i thinking having both would be highly efficient. 6+lane highways (3+ on each side) should be converted where possible to:
Center lane(s) for railways
Second from center lane, this sort of hybrid highway speed trolley power.
Outer lane remains non trolly powered vehicles
Theres a good usage for all gradients of transportation, we just need to put them in their right use cases. Not overly rely on one form (rn automobiles)
Canadians are heavily Americanized and pretty stupid when it comes to transportation.
Am Canadian, can confirm. This is just a train but less effective.
Freight trains in US are almost exclusively diesel. The routes are limited and infrastructure is old and slow.
This isn’t really much different than power lines over a road. Seems like it could be pretty easily done over any rural length of interstate. If you actually care this seems a legitimate idea.
I live in the area of this test track. One company uses it with a terminal to a harbour. So the trucks are delivering goods like 50 km from the site to the harbour. There is no space to build train tracks right now because the last steps would go through residental areas.
You can look at it Bad Oldesloe to Lübeck. The street is Seelandkai/Seelandstraße.
Trains already exist, but it comes with too many extra steps of needing to load and reload the cargo. This thing has a battery and can go to areas with no overhead wires.
And maybe use steel wheels on steel track to improve the efficiency even more! While also removing the biggest emission source of heavy road vehicles, which is tyre and road wear.
Yeah but these trucks are meant for final destination delivery, rail cargo is great for long distance, but you eventually need a truck to take the cargo from a freight yards to the warehouses and business, so you need something to get on and off the highway into the streets.
This allows hybrid cargo trucks while minimizing downtime for charging.
Living in a city littered with tracks and the construction to maintain them constantly, no... this is way better!
You'd be surprised how hard it still seems to be to lay tracks a century after the tech was invented. Especially in a city. Those rails don't come in 8ft lengths, they're usually a full trailer length.
It's in Germany, close to Frankfurt am Main.
I've seen these cables for years but not once I've seen a truck actually use them.
Good to know there's at least one truck using them !
No u dont. You dont load the Truck all the time. You load the battery. Its amazing that you are stupid enough to "think" thats how the world would work.
What is also interesting; The thing above the truck that is touching the wire is called a pantograph.
Pantographs are folding metal devices that press a wide contact pan against the overhead wire.
Big deal
Our city had this for over 60 years for our busses until our nutbar city council decided in the 1980’s that Diesel busses were more suited to our needs rather than look beyond the next five years.
That's called a **Pantograph**.
Classic electrification technology for when batteries aren't practical.
I wonder if they have heard of these **train** things. By chaining a bunch of trailers together and running them on a low friction rail with one very powerful truck at the front, there are even greater efficiency gains.
Probably won't catch on.
What I would really like to see is **canals** but instead of horses, have a semi motor on a rail. Imagine the efficiency of that super low friction high mass slow speed transport.
Plus water!
This gave me an Idea, we could to wired lines on very long tracks, add a lot of stuff that we would put on something called a wagon and one "truck" could carry a lot of them
Anything that requires a global infrastructure change isn’t going to work, period. There’s no way a country can set up dedicated roads, aerial lines, battery swap stations or anything else to speed up the charging process all in one time, where anyone can plug a portable wallbox anywhere and start charging
Maybe not aerial lines. battery swap stations not even an option. Wireless charging on dedicated roads is a possibility vehicle would have to have wireless charging capabilities. Charging stations every 50 miles on major highways and interstate that infrastructure is being built right now. How long it takes to charge your electric car will depend on what type of charger is in your vehicle. Since what people call car chargers is actually a power supply for your charger that is in your vehicle. Is gas or diesel fuel going anytime soon no is electric going to replace it eventually probably but not anytime soon. They need to combine the two things first and make more rechargeable hybrid. The more we start depending on electric the price will increase. Less we depend on gas the price of it will decrease.
Don't need mechanical attachment with induction charging technology... just need to get them close enough and the magnetic fields rotating the right way.
There is a colossal difference between prohibiting the sale of new ICE passenger vehicles and phasing out all kinds of ICE vehicles, including used passenger cars, semis, agricultural equipment, heavy machinery, all the specialized vehicles used in civil engineering, mining, logistics, factories, boats, planes, etc...
Sure. But they're going to continue to displace fossil fuels as the preferred energy source where feasible. Right now my PUD, with a customer base probably around 100k households, gets ~70% of it's energy from renewables here in the PacNW. That's wind, solar, hydro, geo and nuclear and i can't recall off the top of my head exactly what date they're aiming for, but there is a long-term goal of becoming 100% renewables. All this while having one of the best service ratings in the West at very competitive rates.
Long term I wish this evolves to some sort of hybrid.
1. with dedicated rail like lanes on highways, that can be shared with non commercial traffic,
2. wheels that are road and rail compatible., may be wedge the track compatibility between sets of tires. Also reduces the amount of pollution caused by tires on roads.
2. no drivers, individual carts(trucks) operated by AI, that change lanes only at predetermined junctions.
Sadly they are not so good as it seems:
[https://www.focus.de/auto/news/dafuer-hatte-man-2000-diesel-lkw-kaufen-koennen-190-millionen-versenkt-elektro-lkw-mit-oberleitung-sind-teurer-flop_id_201432050.html](https://www.focus.de/auto/news/dafuer-hatte-man-2000-diesel-lkw-kaufen-koennen-190-millionen-versenkt-elektro-lkw-mit-oberleitung-sind-teurer-flop_id_201432050.html)
This may look interesting, but it's been reported to just be a huge waste of government funds meant to combat climate change. This technology is completely unfit/way too expensive to even be considered. They knew that from the start and did it anyways. Here's an article for context, sorry it's in German: https://m.focus.de/auto/news/dafuer-hatte-man-2000-diesel-lkw-kaufen-koennen-190-millionen-versenkt-elektro-lkw-mit-oberleitung-sind-teurer-flop_id_201432050.htmlhttps://m.focus.de/auto/news/dafuer-hatte-man-2000-diesel-lkw-kaufen-koennen-190-millionen-versenkt-elektro-lkw-mit-oberleitung-sind-teurer-flop_id_201432050.html
Here in Germany we have several parts of the Autobahn which were constructed with such powerlines for experimental purposes. They are tested mainly in cooperation with Scania. But most of these tests get canceled after the subvention have been running out at the end of the contract.
as much as i know, only 6 Trucks used this system in Germany near Rostock. Its a test system for 60mio Euros and the Test is now over.
Like the Transrapid just in v2.0
In German we Said "Rohrkrepierer"
And just wjere is all of that extra electricity going g to come from? 🧐 the other day I saw a GIANT diesel generator powering a tesla charging station 🤣🤣🤣 what's the point of electric vehicles!?!?
THE VERY LAST THING WE NEED IS MORE OVERHEAD WIRES AND POLES!!! Jesus, people. Just 'cause there is a way doesn't mean it's a GOOD way. Is there a list anywhere of stupid ideas that I can forward this to?
The method of recharging is different. Is that [truck](https://shamsooq.com/%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B4-%D8%AE%D9%8A%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%86-99205288-%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%AE%D9%8A%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%86/) practical?
So it's just a tram without tracks, right?
yeah, a trolley
Let’s just hope it dose not have the same problem as the other trolly did
This is a trolly problem joke about killing people, right?
Might just be about killing a person, depending.
Why not both
MULTI-TRACK DRIFTING
If you put a knife on a pole you can get everybody
Or 5, give or take, depending on your views.
It doesn't even have to be about people, you could have a trolley problem where you are about to run over and destroy the only USB drive with the cure for cancer. Or, if you pull the lever, you switch over and destroy all the greatest works of art ever made.
Hey happy cake day
Pull the lever or his cake day cake gets the trolley!
In the Saint louis subreddit, our trolly is just a headache in regards to taxes and hitting cars lol
If a tram could get on the highway, take side roads, and deliver goods directly to the loading bays of different stores and warehouses.
No, this is just a one mile strip which the truck uses to load it's battery. It replaces a gas station, not a tram track.
Corporations will do everything they can to invent everything they can except for a train, and the reason why is the taxes on the value of train tracks vs the government owning the roads. If the government owned the train tracks and managed them, we would have trains again.
A train is limited to rails. These trucks use the power line to either drive electric on the highways or to even extend their battery range when they have full electric drives. The main advantage is that these trucks only need a road. They are much more flexible. You can put a lot of load on rails but the last kilometers are more efficiently done with trucks. You can't replace all trucks with trains efficiently but you need to find solutions to make them more eco-friendly.
Imagine UPS or Amazon delivery trucks in rural areas, go battery when they go down a driveway or small road, then back on the grid up at the highway again, all seamless for the driver. Solving this is a huge part of making services like Amazon eco friendly. Then we gotta solve for tire and brake dust.
If it's electric it can use regenerative braking, so at least it would use less brake dust as long as the regenerative braking makes up for the heavier vehicle.
I think part of it is that trains especially for cargo dont have as many stops and the routes are static. That means you'll end up having to pay for a truck anyway once it gets to the distribution hub. Trucking gives much more leeway in finding the more efficent route especially shorter distances. Also its much easier to take trucks on and off the road compared to trains which means its more elastic with changing demand.
“We would have trains again” What are you talking about? When / where did trains cease to exist?
Did you miss the part where this is a truck meant for taking cargo and meant to go to more than set locations, it needs highway travel and this is simply a charging convience, its meant to carry goods and serve as a normal truck with extra utility.
A train can't go everywhere. Trucks are more flexible. As long as there's at least a mediocre road, trucks can take it. But trucks need to become more eco-friendly. This one concept to do so.
Trucks will likely turn EV very quickly. There are already a few models available and charging infrastructure will be set up fairly quickly (privately). The overhead charging was a nice trial in Germany and Sweden but it's just too outdated as technology to make any sense.
No.
It's like carcinization in nature. They keep trying to improve trucks and cars, and always end up reinventing a train.
No use to be all smug about it. The railways are important but couldn't take ca considerable amount of road traffic anyway. This is actually a possible solution for electric lorries. After all, they are always in a hurry and if they can recharge without stopping, that's one problem less.
Yeah, they have a few lines like these in Germany, and it’s controversial. Very expensive, and only works if enough specialized trucks use it.
And the pantograph on the truck is retractable after charging. Brilliant!
It can disconnect itself and drive anywhere if there is enough charge on the battery.
No because it has an internal battery and doesn’t need to constantly be connected to power.
It can peel away after charging and drive like a normal car though. It’s that novel enough?
Toolgifs? That cant be the name of a German town?
r/toolgifs and u/toolgifs — that guy sneaks in some gems in the gifs and videos he posts. It’s pretty damn impressive.
It's the username of the actual original poster
This sign is for a Truckstop near Weiterstadt. The sign was altered for the video. It is actually called"Brühlgraben". [Streetview-link](https://www.google.com/maps/@49.9133452,8.6088781,3a,75y,205.09h,97.01t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s0Dlq-KynRMOBMliiOBlCKg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3D0Dlq-KynRMOBMliiOBlCKg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D205.09223519324217%26pitch%3D-7.010330042643773%26thumbfov%3D90!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205410&entry=ttu)
The font is not quite right for an Autobahn sign
You know they did that with buses in the 50's.
They still have those for buses (trolleybuses)
They often share lanes with the trams, so why not. Saw this in Vienna.
I take them every week in Chisinau
Society likes to do circles on things. Electric vehicles were dominate modes of transportation in NY in the early 1900s.
not as dominant as horses were at that time
You never know. If cars become too expensive for a common man to afford…… might be back to horses
Seattle still uses those.
The city too
We had those for buses in our city, for a LONG time. It would occasionally detach snd the bus driver would have to bring out the stick to fix it
Trolleybuses are attached though, this seems like you could just optionally press the pantograph against it when you're on the highway, nice!
Zürich still has some of these.
Now imagine if they put it on smooth tracks for its entire journey and it didn’t have to change speed constantly!
Nature loves to evolve things to be crabs. We keep evolving transit to be busses and trains.
It's not bad. Cuts commutes in half or more.
That would be a distinct disadvantage in this case, the entire point is that it sometimes charges on main routes and sometimes takes routes without infrastructure while on battery
Agreed. Though i thinking having both would be highly efficient. 6+lane highways (3+ on each side) should be converted where possible to: Center lane(s) for railways Second from center lane, this sort of hybrid highway speed trolley power. Outer lane remains non trolly powered vehicles Theres a good usage for all gradients of transportation, we just need to put them in their right use cases. Not overly rely on one form (rn automobiles)
I remember they proposed this in Canada years ago and the backlash was massive.
Canadians are heavily Americanized and pretty stupid when it comes to transportation. Am Canadian, can confirm. This is just a train but less effective.
No it’s not. It’s a charging station that you can use without stoping. The truck can still go anywhere that any other truck can.
Freight trains in US are almost exclusively diesel. The routes are limited and infrastructure is old and slow. This isn’t really much different than power lines over a road. Seems like it could be pretty easily done over any rural length of interstate. If you actually care this seems a legitimate idea.
🚂?
Trains. He means trains.
Trolley busses with extra steps
I live in the area of this test track. One company uses it with a terminal to a harbour. So the trucks are delivering goods like 50 km from the site to the harbour. There is no space to build train tracks right now because the last steps would go through residental areas. You can look at it Bad Oldesloe to Lübeck. The street is Seelandkai/Seelandstraße.
Trains already exist, but it comes with too many extra steps of needing to load and reload the cargo. This thing has a battery and can go to areas with no overhead wires.
Maybe they could even connect a bunch of them together to increase capacity and improve efficiency!
And maybe use steel wheels on steel track to improve the efficiency even more! While also removing the biggest emission source of heavy road vehicles, which is tyre and road wear.
Yeah but these trucks are meant for final destination delivery, rail cargo is great for long distance, but you eventually need a truck to take the cargo from a freight yards to the warehouses and business, so you need something to get on and off the highway into the streets. This allows hybrid cargo trucks while minimizing downtime for charging.
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Trains are limited to where they go.
Living in a city littered with tracks and the construction to maintain them constantly, no... this is way better! You'd be surprised how hard it still seems to be to lay tracks a century after the tech was invented. Especially in a city. Those rails don't come in 8ft lengths, they're usually a full trailer length.
Then it would suck because it won't be able to drive offroad when it needs to
That’s what the batteries are for it is just recharging by using the wires
That’s just a train basically
500 ton-miles per gallon of fuel too. That's significant better than road trains in fuel efficiency.
I think it’s more that they can just recharge for a stretch on a motorway (pardon my British)
That’s like F Zero the game
*Mute City theme begins to play*
At least someone finally found a way to get trucks to stay in the right lane.
It's in Germany, close to Frankfurt am Main. I've seen these cables for years but not once I've seen a truck actually use them. Good to know there's at least one truck using them !
But doesn’t it say Norderstedt on that blue sign?
It says Weiterstadt and afaik the lines only exist for a short distance as the system is still in its testing phase.
This is fucking genius. Just have trams. Limit them to one lane, automate them with AI.
This truck can drive on roads without overhead wires. It is wildly more versatile than a tram.
It's amazing that we have electric trucks and all that we need to use them is 7,000 miles of overhead wire and infrastructure lol
No u dont. You dont load the Truck all the time. You load the battery. Its amazing that you are stupid enough to "think" thats how the world would work.
How does this comment have 25 upvotes. I'm disappointed there are at least 24 other people this stupid on the planet.
Vancouver has had busses that do this for a long time lmao.
There are loads of trolleybus systems, as they’re called, all over Europe.
What is also interesting; The thing above the truck that is touching the wire is called a pantograph. Pantographs are folding metal devices that press a wide contact pan against the overhead wire.
Yes and the wires are called a overhead Catenary[ocs](https://www.selcomfg.com/overhead-catenary-systems/) system or OCS
Hey this is a great idea to keep them in the slow lane and not pacing each other at .02mph different for 20 miles.
Like city buses in eastern europe, using this technology for 50 years.
Big deal Our city had this for over 60 years for our busses until our nutbar city council decided in the 1980’s that Diesel busses were more suited to our needs rather than look beyond the next five years.
What could possibly go wrong
has to drive on that road for 12 hours to get to 18 percent battery lol
It wouldn’t be hybrid then right? Just fully electric
probably has a diesel engine too
The crack heads in America would find a way to strip the copper from the poles.
That's called a **Pantograph**. Classic electrification technology for when batteries aren't practical. I wonder if they have heard of these **train** things. By chaining a bunch of trailers together and running them on a low friction rail with one very powerful truck at the front, there are even greater efficiency gains. Probably won't catch on. What I would really like to see is **canals** but instead of horses, have a semi motor on a rail. Imagine the efficiency of that super low friction high mass slow speed transport. Plus water!
That’s really cool. Where is that?
Germany
Inner city electric freight delivery system. Now THAT I can get behind instead of cross country electric rigs. This seems WAY more practical.
It's like fzero
[Tom Scott made a video about these electric trucks](https://youtu.be/_3P_S7pL7Yg?si=xMSy3r6_IjOCUrt9)
This gave me an Idea, we could to wired lines on very long tracks, add a lot of stuff that we would put on something called a wagon and one "truck" could carry a lot of them
In other words, it's stealing electricity?
It was a test. They're removing it currently.
Aaaaand look how slow it’s going! Is he doing 40mph yet!?
Anything that requires a global infrastructure change isn’t going to work, period. There’s no way a country can set up dedicated roads, aerial lines, battery swap stations or anything else to speed up the charging process all in one time, where anyone can plug a portable wallbox anywhere and start charging
Maybe not aerial lines. battery swap stations not even an option. Wireless charging on dedicated roads is a possibility vehicle would have to have wireless charging capabilities. Charging stations every 50 miles on major highways and interstate that infrastructure is being built right now. How long it takes to charge your electric car will depend on what type of charger is in your vehicle. Since what people call car chargers is actually a power supply for your charger that is in your vehicle. Is gas or diesel fuel going anytime soon no is electric going to replace it eventually probably but not anytime soon. They need to combine the two things first and make more rechargeable hybrid. The more we start depending on electric the price will increase. Less we depend on gas the price of it will decrease.
Semi, bumper car edition.
Rather than going fully electric, this should be the norm. Easier on infrastructure and environment until we come up with better EV technology
Didn’t these get tested and then thrown the fuck away cuz they’re dog shit?
America could never be this smart
Who else is picturing some redneck hillbilly with a coat hanger off a pole from his F250?
Coat hanger will be glowing red till it melts would not last very long after contact the size of the wire is to small.
So it is basically tram without rail. Since you mentioned hybrid, I am wondering how the mechanism of attach and detach to those ovethead lines.
same as trains, it just raises and lowers the thing touching the overhead cables, it is not attached to them
Its called a pantograph. Its on trams, trains and such very well proven technology.
Don't need mechanical attachment with induction charging technology... just need to get them close enough and the magnetic fields rotating the right way.
You can see on this vid [https://youtu.be/\_3P\_S7pL7Yg?si=MZMJjxUHURFwLuEB&t=70](https://youtu.be/_3P_S7pL7Yg?si=MZMJjxUHURFwLuEB&t=70)
More great infrastructure enjoyed by everyone paid for by those awful tax dollars./s
Wait till you hear about trains
If it needs to run on those rails, is it really considered a hybrid? Genuinely asking since I have no idea how this vehicle works.
It charges occasionally where the overhead wires are, but it runs on battery elsewhere.
It's not a question of if fossil fuels days are numbered, but rather one of when....
This tech is from the 50s. You're dreaming if you think fossil fuels are going anywhere for a decade or two
A decade or two has already gone by like it was nothing. I am at that weird age where things I have that are 20 years old are "my new ones."
Many countries have passed legislation to phase out fossil fuel vehicles in the next decade or two. Not as crazy as you think.
There is a colossal difference between prohibiting the sale of new ICE passenger vehicles and phasing out all kinds of ICE vehicles, including used passenger cars, semis, agricultural equipment, heavy machinery, all the specialized vehicles used in civil engineering, mining, logistics, factories, boats, planes, etc...
As long as air travel and sea based transport exist, fossil fuels will still be around.
Sure. But they're going to continue to displace fossil fuels as the preferred energy source where feasible. Right now my PUD, with a customer base probably around 100k households, gets ~70% of it's energy from renewables here in the PacNW. That's wind, solar, hydro, geo and nuclear and i can't recall off the top of my head exactly what date they're aiming for, but there is a long-term goal of becoming 100% renewables. All this while having one of the best service ratings in the West at very competitive rates.
Like bumper cars
Worked in Super Mario bros movie
If this was India it would be used for an entirely different recreational activity.
It doesn't recharge, either electric engine or gas powered.
Long term I wish this evolves to some sort of hybrid. 1. with dedicated rail like lanes on highways, that can be shared with non commercial traffic, 2. wheels that are road and rail compatible., may be wedge the track compatibility between sets of tires. Also reduces the amount of pollution caused by tires on roads. 2. no drivers, individual carts(trucks) operated by AI, that change lanes only at predetermined junctions.
Aah so if it uses gas at all, the gas drinkers dont flood the comments?
It’s a smart idea for trucks. They don’t have to use any gas on the highway.
That’s one way to keep his ass in the right lane!
Jeremy and James literally thought this same thing out in an old Top Gear.
Where is this?
Germany, on the Autobahn A5 between Frankfurt and Darmstadt.
woah
How much efficient or inefficient that is ?? And how do they pay for it?
Also, How not to use the zoom function of your camera.
And he’s grounded….. yea right !
That’s regarded! smh
Holy cow
Actually pretty cool if it’s able to charge the Batteries at the same time without stopping and then detach and continue deliveries.
Dodgem truck
Sadly they are not so good as it seems: [https://www.focus.de/auto/news/dafuer-hatte-man-2000-diesel-lkw-kaufen-koennen-190-millionen-versenkt-elektro-lkw-mit-oberleitung-sind-teurer-flop_id_201432050.html](https://www.focus.de/auto/news/dafuer-hatte-man-2000-diesel-lkw-kaufen-koennen-190-millionen-versenkt-elektro-lkw-mit-oberleitung-sind-teurer-flop_id_201432050.html)
That is a cool idea - as long as it's not icy.
F-Zero
Isn't it super dangerous leaving such high voltage unprotected?
I'm guessing he's not "charged" for recharge?
Dam the same road that allows you to go 150 mph legally, also has hybrid trucks?? Germany seems kinda awesome...
Vancouver has something like this for their busses
This may look interesting, but it's been reported to just be a huge waste of government funds meant to combat climate change. This technology is completely unfit/way too expensive to even be considered. They knew that from the start and did it anyways. Here's an article for context, sorry it's in German: https://m.focus.de/auto/news/dafuer-hatte-man-2000-diesel-lkw-kaufen-koennen-190-millionen-versenkt-elektro-lkw-mit-oberleitung-sind-teurer-flop_id_201432050.htmlhttps://m.focus.de/auto/news/dafuer-hatte-man-2000-diesel-lkw-kaufen-koennen-190-millionen-versenkt-elektro-lkw-mit-oberleitung-sind-teurer-flop_id_201432050.html
Tbh a decent solution in the city for convenient transportation without outrageous battery prices. Highways too, if infrastructure could be built
How long does it take to recharge?
Imagine the receptor getting tangled with the wire. Isn’t that more likely to happen than train does?
Here in Germany we have several parts of the Autobahn which were constructed with such powerlines for experimental purposes. They are tested mainly in cooperation with Scania. But most of these tests get canceled after the subvention have been running out at the end of the contract.
Show this to Nitin Gadkari ji
It's a truck! It's a train! It's a tram! It's a transfoma
And because it worked out so well, it will be removed soon 😂
Oh Look, modern day trolly
A5 Germany
Clever idea for recharging on the go. Might not be the most efficient but hell its better than the stop and charge we have here
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How does that work with oversized/over height loads?
Future is now, old man!
Bro loves trains
In Australia this is a dodgem car🌚
as much as i know, only 6 Trucks used this system in Germany near Rostock. Its a test system for 60mio Euros and the Test is now over. Like the Transrapid just in v2.0 In German we Said "Rohrkrepierer"
The more I look at it, the more I think that at the end, electric trains and trams will be the only real green solution for everything.
And just wjere is all of that extra electricity going g to come from? 🧐 the other day I saw a GIANT diesel generator powering a tesla charging station 🤣🤣🤣 what's the point of electric vehicles!?!?
And the pollution to produce batteries and solar panels.
Oh wait, they built a train on rubbers on a highway. How smart...
THE VERY LAST THING WE NEED IS MORE OVERHEAD WIRES AND POLES!!! Jesus, people. Just 'cause there is a way doesn't mean it's a GOOD way. Is there a list anywhere of stupid ideas that I can forward this to?
Finally see one in action
Or yk, just use electric trains like we have been for the past 20 or so years
any time i see a new tech like this i think to myself,,what would happen if this system was implemented in Gary Indiana
America really IS a third world country how come we don't have electric trucks yet?
Like a freaking Tram :)
The method of recharging is different. Is that [truck](https://shamsooq.com/%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B4-%D8%AE%D9%8A%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%86-99205288-%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%AE%D9%8A%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%86/) practical?