Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday said that making India's first electric highway between Delhi and Jaipur is his dream.
Addressing an event, Gadkari further said the government is already in talks with a foreign company to build the electric highway.
On electric highways, vehicles travel along the stretch while being charged. There are several models of electric highways in different countries.
In one model, a pantograph located above a freight or electric vehicle will be connected to an overhead cable through which an electric current is run.
Another model is where a contact arm for a vehicle is located below it, connecting to a road fitted with an electromagnet.
Electric highways are already in use in Germany and Sweden. In Sweden, this let the EV batteries inside the vehicles to be charged while driving.
In Germany's first electric highway, which was launched in 2019, hybrid trucks can switch entirely to electric propulsion while they travel along the stretch, and can switch back to hybrid propulsion once they exit it.
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