Germany is testing its first high-speed electric road to promote environmentally friendly transportation

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Germany has decided to join the ranks of countries betting on "high-speed electricity" to promote environmentally friendly trucking, eHighway Between Frankfurt and Darmstadt.

A hybrid diesel-electric hybrid truck will be powered from overhead cables to prevent it from using the combustion engine, after previous tests in the country relied on either slow night trials or tests at an unmanned military airport.

According to the site Engadget The first road was launched eHighway In Sweden in 2016, Germany uses the same concept. The trucks rely on the bantografts – the bumps on their surfaces – to install on the overhead cables and pull the electricity, and the trucks can feed the electricity in the network at the brakes, making the system particularly useful if there is congestion .

The system will not have much effect for a while. Only five trucks will operate this system, with heavy trucks accounting for about 10 percent of the 135,000 daily cars.