tjh290633 wrote:Presumably they will run on steel roads, like dodgem cars, or else they will need twin trolley booms, as opposed to pantographs, which cannot deal with two wires at once, unless the vehicle is on tracks.
TJH
The electrified road seemed like a cleaner idea than the pantograph, and available for all to use once you've dug up the road and installed it, but given a decent battery supply and absent a reverse pony express driver relay Scania's other solution seems like less faff, and less subject to disruption in use.
Scania plans to introduce long-distance electric trucks that will be able to carry a total weight of 40 tonnes for 4.5 hours, and fast charge during the drivers’ compulsory 45-minute rest.
- https://www.scania.com/group/en/home/ne ... icles.html
That is build a truck which can haul the heaviest load allowed in the EU, for the longest period a driver is allowed to drive continuously in the EU, and then fully recharge during his EU legally mandated break...