The highway where trucks work like electric trains

2021-10-25

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In Lübeck, Germany, there's one of several eHighway test projects: overhead catenary wires, where electric trucks with pantographs can pull power directly from the grid. Thanks to everyone who gave so much time to make this video possible!

More about the eHighway: https://www.ehighway-sh.de/de/ehighway.html

Prof. Cebon's work at the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight: https://www.csrf.ac.uk/author/dcebon/

Camera operator: Richard Bielau

Producer: Maximilian Thesseling of Klein Aber https://kleinaber.de/

With thanks to all the team at the eHighway and at Spedition Bode GmbH

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