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Re:Volvo delivers 74-tonne electric truck by favorited on Friday November 17, 2023 @07:59PM (#38313364)
Germany is also experimenting with electrified highways, where trucks charge their batteries via a pantograph for stretches of the autobahn.

Of course, they're also shuttering nuclear plants and reopening coal plants, so you might call it a step forward and a half-step backward...

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-tests-first-ehighway-autobahn/...

Re:Volvo delivers 74-tonne electric truck by imtringued on Saturday November 18, 2023 @05:36AM (#38317864)
This keeps getting repeated but the percentage of coal in the electricity mix hasn't risen whatsoever. What's getting delayed is a higher renewable percentage. The problem in Germany isn't "more coal".