工程师Roland Edel说，将著名的德国汽车转换为电气化高速公路的想法一直在西门子工业制造公司渗透，“但我将其放回了议程上。”即便如此，董事会成员告诉他，他们从未看到他的计划，被称为Ehighway，在他们的一生中意识到。But after tests in Berlin, Sweden, and L.A., the company successfully opened a five-kilometer stretch of eHighway in Germany in May 2019. Siemens’s system converts energy from overhead contact lines to current in the motors of specially outfitted freight trucks, allowing them to run without fossil fuels. These trucks are custom-built by Volkswagen-owned Scania and fitted with links, called pantographs, behind the driver’s cabin that collect power when in contact with the overhead line. Over the past year, the eHighway has withstood winter storms and auto fires and has proved so promising that the German government is currently considering signing off on another 4,000 kilometers, which would make up one-third of the country’s entire highway system and convert 60% of its trucking to be fossil fuel-free. “If Germany decides on this, I’m pretty sure it will have a domino effect in Europe,” Edel says.
