World's First Electric Road: Charging EVs While Driving

In the heart of Sweden, electric roads, known as e-roads, are revolutionizing transportation. These roads are embedded with electric rails, enabling EVs to seamlessly recharge as they travel. Imagine a world where EVs glide along highways, eliminating frequent recharging stops and addressing range anxiety. E-roads offer convenience and sustainability by reducing the need for large batteries and non-renewable resources, while also making cities quieter.
E-roads operate through conductive charging, ensuring a secure energy transfer from road to vehicle. Safety and compatibility are paramount, with insulation and versatile design. Inductive charging offers contactless convenience. Adverse weather concerns are addressed with real-time monitoring, making e-roads reliable year-round.
E-roads not only power vehicles but also reduce noise pollution in cities. They align with global sustainability goals and efforts to transition to fossil fuel-free transportation. Challenges like standardization and public acceptance persist, but global collaboration is propelling this technology forward. E-roads promise less vehicle wear, smart city integration, and reduced reliance on non-renewable resources, paving the way for a limitless, sustainable transportation future.
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[@josephmatthewspearsslade8900]

Remember when we played with those little electric toy slot cars as kids? Well, folk have finally decided to use such for the real deal. 🚗⚡️

[@FIGHTTHECABLE]

Toys are toys. Grow up.

[@o0prince]

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[@ayoutubechannelname]

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[@yolo_burrito]

The one without contact is inducted charging not conductive charging.

[@SebiAlan-tq3xq]

Electrificate road already exist and are named trams !!!!!

[@qwertycoupe]

Most trams ive seen get the electricity by making contact with wires above, like dodgem cars

[@SebiAlan-tq3xq]

@@qwertycoupe trams with electric contact on the road too. The idea is that already existing electric cars and all solutions in the world prevent this climate and ecological crisis, but those measures aren't put into practice because THEY AREN'T PROFITABLE. We are going to destroy ourselves to keep the economic engine, that system that makes rich people richer every day, at the expense of our health, happiness, and future... What do you think that communist movement was about???

[@mnipp]

A 2019 report by the Swedish Electromobility Centre estimates the annualized societal costs of the entire Swedish automotive fleet under each of the three systems. Overhead wires most expensive with on-going maintenance and limited to tall commercial vehicles such as trucks and buses. Wireless inductive infrastructure is estimated to cost about 2.8 billion euros annualized. The conductive rail infrastructure is estimated to cost about 1 billion euros annualized. Electric road - Wikipedia

[@limbeboy7]

Can a tram leave the highway and pull into your house?

[@TVWJ]

3:32 conductive charging?? What is shown looks more like inductive charging.

[@ristube3319]

How is this new when it’s been done for a hundred years? The NYC subway is essentially the same thing (embedded electrical rail) and was new in the 1800’s

[@peterlai9018]

I thought contactless charging is done by inductive means?

[@LVXMagick]

I've been saying this should have been done since the 90s! There's no reason we couldn't have had this decades ago. West Virginia University engineering students accomplished this for their public transportation project in Morgantown WV in the 1970s! Technology advances so quickly, unfortunately humans and laws do not. Glad to FINALLY see this may be used in a larger scale.

[@patrioticz2858]

And a potential massive waste of power

[@prshntkumar0000]

But we had trams which no one uses, wastage of money.

[@MagnusWendt]

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I work right next to this strip of road and it is just a few 100m long, so not quite large scale just yet...

[@Akhil-gd7lp]

Didn't E-Road already start in Norway over 2 years ago

[@viperflyer]

That's inductive.... where no contact occurs. Please update

[@sidneyhillaryw5121]

Conductive or inductive charging

[@ScribblyPoppo]

Our roads charge us.

[@TheNguyenben85]

Do you have a 🧠

[@Tiogar60]

We had this. It's called a tram.

[@juliahello6673]

Trams can't go anywhere. A car can go anywhere and these charging strips would just be in high traffic roads.

[@ЕвгенийБагрянов-н9э]

@@juliahello6673 so, trolleybus with some accumulator? :-)

[@HelloWorld-vg5yv]

Considering noise to the cabin and frictions that reduce efficiency, I still prefer wireless solutions

[@gumuskent04]

Which firm produce this?

[@stickynorth]

Conductive charging will be the future much the same way it has for charging electronic devices like cell phones and ipads... I suspect we'll see mass transit adopt it first with it eventually making its way to add-on kits for cars. Bombardier Transportation was working on this like 15 years ago but never commercialized it.... Now is the time...

[@ristube3319]

3:50 wouldn’t this be akin to qi wireless charging? There’s be less noise over a connector to a plate.

[@skiffelati3952]

Nope this has a contact

[@Dinozar-nb2jh]

Trolleybus?

[@nixoncode]

you know how electric trains work. just go with that

[@prime8krish]

can we cut the amount of filler words with marketing bs and focus on actual technology?

[@jamesmacleod9382]

I had a slot car track when I was a kid. So there really is nothing new under the sun. Maybe if they included a slot, true self driving may be possible. I wonder how much copper and other materials would be needed to add this to every road in a country like the US and how much electricity would have to be generated to have the slot ready to use at any time.Will it require transformer stations every so often like the old electric buses and subways do. It seems like it would be incredibly pricey is what I'm thinking.

[@solomonbeliever793]

I'm very happy to see this man(documentarian)i really like his voce

[@MrLukealbanese]

Inductive charging

[@bachefingili1]

First of all this is not a new concept and what prevention of electrocution of pedestrians and roaming animals???

[@mnipp]

Only a one metre section is active as the vehicle passes over it. The rest of the rail is a safe return ground for one of the other vehicle contacts.

[@bigedslobotomy]

The biggest problem I see with this (besides the HUGE outlay in $$$ for infrastructure) would be the fact that peak traffic often occurs during peak electricity demand (during the day) and would strain the electric grid beyond it’s capabilities. This might work if we were furiously working on expanding the grid with reliable sources (like nuclear, natural gas, and hydroelectric) to meet this projected demand. Instead, it is nearly impossible to get a power plant (of any variety) through the planning stage without endless lawsuits.

[@mikemotorbike4283]

Time-based tariffs naturally constrain commercial use to cheaper midday or night period. Midday, often solar surplus. Takes only a couple of years to increase solar, about the same as trucks are rolled out.

[@kepler186f4]

"Future's so bright, gotta wear shades..."

[@TumbleDownED]

I have always listened to this voice, did know the guy looks like this 😂😂

[@Maleblade]

My idea, proposed years. ago was to have charging rails mounted on the sides of the roads and charging rods or poles would swing out from the back of the vehicle to contact them for charging.This would avoid a lot of problems.

[@sin_fc3822]

Sounds limited and dangerous. Knowing some idiots they would swing the arms out on cyclists.

[@Maleblade]

@@sin_fc3822 They open the doors on them.There could be a scanning system to prevent deployment if there are obstructins.

[@FIGHTTHECABLE]

Were you 5 Years old, Years ago? The idea is just stupid. The video is also stupid. He got confused with conductive and inductive charging. Also you need 2 rods on 2 rails to build a circuit. This demonstation is heavily flawed, showing 1 rail and 3 rods 😅😅😅

[@jamesmacleod9382]

Like masts on electric buses that would be raised to make contact with all those wires you see over the streets in old movies.

[@manout-kidin8735]

Silly question here : what if we for some unknown reason accidentally put our feet on that metal strip . Will we get electrocuted 😅

[@ZeroTwo__02]

i think Coil roads would be the best solution.

[@mnipp]

Only a one metre section is active as the vehicle passes over it. The rest of the rail is a safe return ground for one of the other vehicle contacts.

[@manout-kidin8735]

@@mnipp hmm . Sure engineers must have thought about it during design hence just 1 meter strip gets energized when system detects a bus .

[@patrioticz2858]

This would be a huge waste of electricity unless there is a away to stop the usage of the electricity by the vehicles

[@RealCadde]

Funny thing is, we already have electric roads. We've had them for a long time. Electric trolley buses connect to a overhead wire using a pantograph like thing and then they drive around like normal. If they need to leave the part of the road that is electrified, they just disconnect from the overhead wire and use their battery charge. That is the system they should be focusing on perfecting as it's the safest for everyone involved. These E-roads will fail the moment it hits the real world, where we have snow, grit, trash and pooling water. There have been attempts at making electrified tramways without putting up catenaries (overhead wires) before and they have all failed because for one, they are lethal being in such close proximity to road users and for two, they always get gummed up with debris and/or damaged from improper aligned shoes and/or ineffective due to current leaking into the ground because of wet weather combined with salt... The reason they went for this particular design is that it looks new and inventive so they can patent it and sell it off as something brand new. It isn't new and it's a horribly bad design.

[@juliahello6673]

Range anxiety doesn't plague EV owners. It plagues people who are contemplating becoming EV owners.

[@MrAlanCristhian]

Trolleybus exists since 1910. But tech bros are so ignorants.

[@mnipp]

A 2019 report by the Swedish Electromobility Centre estimates the annualized societal costs of the entire Swedish automotive fleet under each of the three systems. Overhead wires most expensive with on-going maintenance and limited to tall commercial vehicles such as trucks and buses. Wireless inductive infrastructure is estimated to cost about 2.8 billion euros annualized. The conductive rail infrastructure is estimated to cost about 1 billion euros annualized. Electric road - Wikipedia

[@CubbyTech]

Fun experiment, but will never go mainstream. Cars can already DC quick charge and go hundreds of miles after 30 minutes. We should focus on more DC quick charge locations, even just 75kW.

[@_martian101]

Go hundreds of miles after 30 minutes? How fast is that?

[@_martian101]

The more you use batteries the more you damaging environment, so like it or not charging your cars would be obsolete one day

[@CubbyTech]

This is absolutely incorrect. EV batteries last for years and are being recycled.

[@Tailspin80]

But you still need to make huge heavy batteries and carry them in the car. An e-road system just needs a small battery like a hybrid car does.

[@CubbyTech]

@@Tailspin80 You still need large enough batteries to capture energy from braking and downhill. Current hybrids can maybe go 5 miles on these tiny batteries, and it's simply not enough capacity.

[@hotshotsunnyz]

So you travel in straight lines, just like train. This is not an innovation.

[@kopdahl11]

And how high will the roadtax be? 😂

[@valkaielod]

Astronomic of course.

[@mikemotorbike4283]

Empty your pockets

[@oronjoffe]

Ahem, electric shocks?

[@mnipp]

Only a one metre section is active as the vehicle passes over it. The rest of the rail is a safe return ground for one of the other vehicle contacts.

[@neilsumanda1538]

well, im not an expert on EVs, but maybe they can put something like this in carparks. When EVs park, that thing below will be lowered and connected to the strip on the parking lot and started charging.. no need to find some charging port around the parking lot..

[@stan3452344]

The lack of electricity generation capacity will kill electric cars. Add in the disposal issue, resale value decline, need to total them after accidents, location of key minerals in unfriendly countries, etc etc. One of the biggest follies in history.

[@hououinkyouma1458]

If there's demand they'll build more power stations. Its supply and demand. Even with fossil fuel electricity Electric cars are still more efficient than iCE cars since power stations are about 50 percent efficient while ice cars are about 25 percent efficient.

[@jerrylawson9003]

If this will take the batteries off of city busses it might be useful.

[@atehrani]

This is nice, but wireless is better

[@grantmccoy6739]

It's not necessary for several reasons. If EV's get 300+ miles per charge. Even 1 hour long charge times are "acceptable". Are you really going to get much charging done in this amount of distance/time? How long would it need to be? Is it even safe at all? If EV's can be charged from home electricity, then you really don't need road charging. Overnight is plenty to keep the vehicle sufficiently charged. Also, EV's are kind of absurd that they aren't already using motor generators of some kind to keep themselves powered with very small batteries. Unless I'm missing something fundamentally, there's no reason why you can't make electricity with electricity.

[@TVWJ]

Yes. you are missing something fundamental. You can't create energy from nothing... By the way, most EVs have recuperation systems that charge the batteries when braking or driving downhill.

@@TVWJ There are ways to create energy, such as water (separate H2O into H and O), solar panels, and dynamos. The tech has been there for decades, it wasn't used because of oil companies.

[@TVWJ]

You cannot "create" energy with the methods you mention. Solar panels grab the energy from the sunlight / daylight and convert it to electrical power. This is a viable way to generate useful electricity and is being used today. Splitting of water requires electricity (electrolysis). This can be delivered by solar panels, windmills or conventional production methods of electricity production, using fossil fuels. When windmills or solar panels are used for water electrolysis, this is called "green hydrogen", which is a process under full development today. But for electrolysis, you need to put electric power in first, so splitting of water is a method to store energy, not to create energy. Hydrogen is not an energy source, we first have to produce it by using some form of energy. Hydrogen is merely a way to store energy. Dynamos, or the big ones called generators, are the conventional way for electricity production. But also here, you need to put energy in first, because you need to "turn the wheel". In power plants, this is done by steam power, where steam is produced by burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas) In nuclear plants, steam is generated in from heat generated in a nuclear reactor. In windmills, wind power is used to drive the dynamo/generator, in hydro, the power of water running downhill is used. But also with dynamos or generators, you need to put in energy first, before you can get electricity. Dynamos just convert some form of mechanical energy to electricity, which means that you need the mechanical energy first. So the tech that you mentioned is already in use, the problem is just: where does the energy come from, if it cannot be fossil fuels? The answers so far are solar, wind, hydro, or nuclear.

[@srinibasbehera8406]

Elevator road banaao

[@greatIndis24]

And what about electric shock? What if pedestrians or any human being or animal come to it contact accidently? It is not a practical solution.

[@sin_fc3822]

Have you ever used a wireless charger? You never get a shock everytime you pick up your phone

[@Ayanda846]

​@@sin_fc3822😂

[@aritrachatterjee87]

@@sin_fc3822 except this is not a wireless charger. It is a conductive material with contact with an extension from the car. So there is a chance of getting electrocuted if touched. The worst situation I can think of is a lightning strike.

[@Tailspin80]

@@aritrachatterjee87Just turn the power on and off intelligently as the car passes. Not difficult.

[@TheWeavingBagel]

@@Tailspin80 Congratulations someone guessed exactly how it works and turned out to be right.

[@Raja-ct9xq]

Have you not seen Electric Train ??? 😂😂😂 And you just turned the Pentagram from top to bottom in cars/busses 😂😂😂

[@abc-coleaks-info]

It would be interesting to see how they electrically decoupled the vehicles from providing a ground fault during a lightning strike. Without that, it could be quite exciting during a storm. With conventional vehicles, some protection is provided by the tires and a lack of direct contact with the ground. But lightning still makes the jump with the occupants protected by not touching metal. It still damages the vehicle’s electrical system but nowhere close to the damage an EV will suffer with onboard lithium batteries, and their potential destructive capability. I’m all for this system provided the issues are resolved. I grew up with this system powering my little racetrack cars and toy train sets.

[@ibrahimsued4906]

Electrified collective transports in cities, connected to cables, period !

[@mikemotorbike4283]

Never live no matter how clever, unless overhead. Inductive only on road, at stop signs, perhaps. Common sense.

[@tamiks2000]

Sound like the road in Death Stranding haha

[@theowlfromduolingo7982]

Makes only sense on a small scale in my opinion.

[@ajstevens1652]

Nice concept, but far too expensive and dangerous in practice.

[@teachergotgame2203]

So trains are dangerous I guess, so are rollercoasters and trolleys.

[@borissergijevic7357]

Not technically feasible

[@RandyZimmerman-pp5wj]

Having worked for dot for 24 years it has to be flat

[@ankittayal8291]

Phone to wireless charge hota ni😂

[@drakemia4079]

We love our EV s

[@gliding_soaring]

Nonsense. I want to see what will happen to it after water pipe burst :)

[@judasthepious1499]

too many cars..

[@znarqamshlu6720]

😂😳💞💐🇯🇵👍

[@FIGHTTHECABLE]

What a load of bollocks. Just imagine the stretch of road you would need to build, to charge for 20 minutes. And you never need to charge while roaming in the city. So the most logical point of install is motorways. 20 minutes of driving at 100km/h is 33km of motorway built with a charging equipment. The idea is too expensive and not economical.

[@XxLIVRAxX]

Its an interesting concept, more of an iteration of an existing technology, scalability is going to be a challange though. Our safest bet probably lies in mass transit oriented urban development and decress our relliance on privately own cars.

[@thumbtak123]

I like the idea, in theory, but like with your cellphone, you are not supposed to always leave it plugged in as that is very bad for the battery. This will hurt the battery, or worse, cause it to expand.

[@goldenalbatross9462]

Not a great comparison. Phones aren’t expected to stay connected at all times. These vehicles will likely have a design workaround to that.

[@thumbtak123]

@@goldenalbatross9462 They will not need batteries like we commonly use today.

[@PhilipFryklund]

Not a fair comparison as the car will only use these charging roads while driving i.e. they are drawing a lot of current and will not be on them forever.

[@Observer168]

Wow China needs this

[@danielramsey1959]

Works better for truckers.

[@CleeshoeArt]

Tyco slot cars

[@TMS26164]

Wow so nice to see your face, im only use to your beautiful voice

[@srinibasbehera8406]

Elevator road

[@josediogenesguedes9.999.9]

This is looking at the problem with a broad view. Expand the view. While the majority is focused on the battery, Toyota even released this week its electric vehicle with a solid-state battery with a much greater autonomy than EVs with a lithium-ion battery. I think we were all surprised by this solution. E-roads. All that remains is for the international community to resolve the problem of wealth distribution. Because not everyone wants to have a car, but everyone who wants to have one should be able to have one.

[@dissent9959]

Expensive, harder to maintain, and all to support an inferior type of vehicle more susceptible to central control. Thanks but no. And scratch the thanks.

[@BatterymanDan]

definitely not inferior. My Model 3 will whoop alotta mustangs and camaros!! And have 3x longer life.

[@SanjayMane_Tech]

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[@robertfrisby9182]

This is ridiculous. That will take for ever. And electric vehicles will be replaced by something else by then.

[@sp6496-o6c]

That's a big NO

[@valkaielod]

This seems to be idiotic at best. Like solar roadways.

[@mooooooooooomooooooooooomo6829]

it won't charge if you make one bad tweet lol, or if your social credit score is below 500 lol

[@fredherman5234]

This system is not practical..there are better systems already exist. such as inductive charging ..

[@bayareaelectical]

Not a good concept

[@renatan.5182]

NO !

[@hanspbucher2067]

Who will pay for this BS. Every road will become a toll road.

[@MeaganEater]

QUESTION: What is the EMF from that technology? QUESTION: What is the long-term exposure to those EM Field? QUESTION: Will anyone be monitoring the heath of everyone using and around that technology? ANSWER: No! FYI: Some people and animals are not able to handle exposure to Electro Magnetic Fields. Examples: The approved exposure limit is 0.40, anything above that is dangerous. Some kinds of Tech can be scoring on the Meter 100, 200, 400, 600 and even 999 or above and some score 0.0 to 0.25 on average. Meters for measuring can be purchased. There are EMF Meters, RMF Meters, and EMF/RMF Meeters. There are also a Multi-Field Meter, Advanced GQ EMF-390 Multi-Field Electromagnetic Radiation 3-in-1 EMF ELF RF meter. We have a Dual and the 3 in 1, this way we can at least make sure the two meters are agreeing on the EM and RF Field strengths.

[@ZaynSalimon7089]

So that's what u look like.

[@derekdavies7374]

They can't even maintain the roads in the u.s as it is plus with snow and everything this is a stupid idea

[@Bruce-f6n]

👎 👎

[@Sebartus]

This contactor under the car is a stupid idea that dies when you want to overtake any car. In a city where you often change lanes, turn, etc. this is a poor solution.

[@jerrylawson9003]

You could get one of these idiotic BEV trucks with the massive high voltage battery,drive slowly on these paths, and steal power for your home. Homeless people could charge their phones!

[@growoldanddie]

Is this a badly timed April fools joke. Obviously a terrible idea.