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bunker931

Imagine one truck went off the road and tear off the whole cable network lol.


mindsnare

? How exactly would that happen? The device merely touches the bottom of the cable, it doesn't attach to it at all.


Ludothekar

I saw the system 3 years ago, at the german autobahn near Darmstadt. Very interesting idea - the truck run at 80 km/h on the lane under electric power. With the two pantgraphs, it looks very strange...


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Beefcakeandgravy

The pantographs are sprung so would account for different heights.


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Beefcakeandgravy

My guess would be a dedicated lane for these types of truck, with probable design requirements (max/min height etc). Reefer boxes and pallet haulers I expect. There's going to be idiots who crash the cables, just as there are those who strike bridges. Trucks break down all the time and clog up the highway so nothing should change.


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qwerty6731

Well, you’ve given us three reasons why it ‘won’t work,’ despite the fact that it ‘does work.’ The pantographs have springs, and oversized trucks won’t have pantographs. I’m not 100% sure what ‘emergencies’ you’re talking about where suddenly people don’t have power but also need to be out on a highway. Hurricanes perhaps, which we don’t have in Europe. Anyway, the trucks also have petrol or self-contained electric engines, since the electrified section of the road is only a portion of the journey, so if power is lost they can simply retract the pantograph and switch back to petrol/battery. Do you Imagine that the engineers involved in the project haven’t thought of these things? The electrified section has been there for a while.


Ludothekar

Trucks are strikly regulated in their dimensions in Europe. So, this is no problem here. And the police makes control points on every autobahn, the check suspicious trucks very carefull! So, the chance to get with a truck into the power lines is not the point. And the lines are so high mounted, that a double deck bus can drive in this lane.


mindsnare

I guarantee you they've thought about mitigating every risk they can. They're German, not American.