Just another one of those wild and wonderful things that could be? How do we get from what's here now to a future that's free from using fossil-fuels for moving people, goods and services?
Intelligent and autonomous transport using hydrogen and battery-powered vehicles may be one of the solutions to the problems created by using internal-combustion engines at the advent of the 19th Century - from "horse-power" to "horse-less-carriages", to cranked-up cars using the power of ignition and "auto-mobiles" guzzling gallons of gasoline on roads and highways at the same time emitting tons of toxic transmissions that pollute the air and destroy the environment.
On the road ahead (maybe) A Carbon-Free Future.
What exactly might alter that "footprint" ?
A 1.2-mile stretch of road in Sweden does that by electrifying a rail in-the-roadway, Electreon.
South Korea did it another way in 2013
World’s first road-powered electric vehicle network switches on in South Korea
South Korea has rolled out the world’s first road-powered electric vehicle network. The network consists of special roads that have electrical cables buried just below the surface, which wirelessly transfer energy to electric vehicles via magnetic resonance. Road-powered electric vehicles are exciting because they only require small batteries, significantly reducing their overall weight and thus their energy consumption. There’s also the small fact that, with an electrified roadway, you never have to plug your vehicle in to recharge it, removing most of the risk and range anxiety associated with electric vehicles (EVs).
The network consists of 24 kilometers (15 miles) of road in the city of Gumi, South Korea. For now, the only vehicles that can use the network are two Online Electric Vehicles (OLEV) — public transport buses
How Electric Roads Could Power the Future
The transition from horse to horsepower ushered in an infrastructural revolution that rippled through every part of society and made the modern world possible. A century later, we may be on the cusp of another massive transformation, this time with electric roads. (Source: Bloomberg)
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