‘Electrified highway with overhead wires ideal for the port of Rotterdam’
Catenary lines above on the motorway, where trucks receive electricity via a pantograph. If it is up to Siemens Mobility, freight traffic will head in that direction via the so-called eHighway. Erik Koopman, Business Development Manager at Siemens Mobility, explained the benefits in conversation with Dutch sister magazine SpoorPro on Wednesday.
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This technology has existed many years already: when I was a child (the 1950’s) I sat in bumper cars on the fair, with an overhead net/grid for electric energy. So I started promoting this technology among Logistics students – and now I am glad somebody finally picked up the idea.