A Swedish manufacturer wants to harness green energy from a cargo trailer's free real estate.

Sweden is testing a semi-truck trailer covered in 100 square meters of solar panels::A Swedish manufacturer wants to harness green energy from a cargo trailer’s free real estate.

  • fuzzzerd@programming.devEnglish
    5·
    1 年前

    That’s basically the way interurban trains operated for years before the highway system and personal vehicles replaced that mode of transport. It wasn’t solar powered back then, but the idea makes a lot of sense.

    • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
      2·
      1 年前

      Yeah, I know it’s basically reinventing trains, but it would be a great inbetween solution to have trucks stay in a dedicated lane in a semi-automatic mode on long stretches, while they can service the last few kms without having to transfer the load.

      • visak@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 年前

        If you call them PanoPods you can probably get venture capital funding and then just go buy a train and paint it with a cool design.