Harry Frank
Per Ranch
Presentation for the Parliaments Committee on Transport and Communications, April, 6th
• Summary
• Project formalities
• Assumptions
• Discussion
• Result
• Opposites
• Next step
• Big social gains with small funds
• Existing technology
• Requires national initiative / political initiative
• Creates new industry
• New tax instruments for road transports
Figures:
Railroad -> Electrified Railroad, Road -> Electrified Road
• Electric roads, electrification of heavy road transport
• Funded by the Swedish Road Administration, Energy Agency and
Svenska Elvägar AB.
• January-April 2010
• Interurban freight traffic, ie. Not local distribution traffic
• Focus on infrastructure / national needs
• International rules and standards are taken into account
• Preliminary, non quality assured results
• Fossil-free society
- Global warming
- Lack of future fossil fuels
- National security risks
• The society relies on reliable transport
- Food
- People
- Goods
• Electric roads mean
- Reduced use of fossil fuels
- Utilizes existing roads
- Minimal monetary investment
- Minimal CO2 investment
• In addition
- New business opportunities for Swedish business
- Effective tax instruments
District heating; 4.4
Housing; 3.4
Electricity; 1.5
Flight; 0.7
Ships; 0.7
Industry; 17
46,6 Mton CO2
Road transports; 18.9 Mton ->
Cars 12.3
Heavy trucks 4.4 (blue circle)
Light trucks 1.9
Buses 0.6
• Passenger cars Hybrid + Electric on board + Stationary charge
• Light trucks Hybrid + Electric onboard + Stationary charge
• City buses Hybrid + El on board + Shuttle platforms charging
• Heavy Vehicle Hybrid + Electric on board + Electricity via overhead wire
Total power requirement 15 TWh / year = 10% of today's electricity generation (yellow highligted)
~ 25% of "life cycle energy" to build infrastructure! (yellow highligted)
In box;
Infrastructure
Vehicles
Production of fuel
Propulsion
Below figures
Energy use in the railroad sector
Energy use in the road sector
All the heavy trucks in Sweden increases electricity demand <3% (3-4 TWh) (yellow box)
CO2 "pay-back within 2 years - if vehicles exists (yellow box)
Electrification of the "triangle" Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmoe.
(yellow box)
Cost estimated to 13.8 billion SEK (1.3 billion EUR)
Reduce CO2 with 1,3 MTON / year
DOE, Department of Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory;
“If an acceptable method for plugging in while traveling along the roadway can be devised, it may provide a costeffective pathway to vehicle electrification”
. . .
“This pathway requires infrastructure, but only along a small fraction of heavily traveled roadways to gain the same gasoline saving benefits as battery PHEVs.”
Overhead lines do not fit under bridges/viaducts!
- This can be solved.
"Robotic arm" ensures flexibility necessary to pass obstacles on road.
(Yellow box)
Overhead lines are ugly!
- Certainly.
Picture describes the electrification of a highway interchange. Viaducts and crossroads are not electrified.
(Yellow box)
This is not the future!
This system delivers large environmental benefits quickly and does not lock us up. It does not prevent other solutions.
+ Tunga transporter kan elektrifieras med befintlig teknik
+ Stor besparingspotential av fossila drivmedel & CO2
+ Liten monetär investering -> Snabb omställning
+ Liten CO2 investering -> Snabba miljövinster
• Inform / Mindsetting
(Funding is missing)
• Solve technical problems
(FFI application on the way)
• study business opportunities
• Study tax instruments
• Big social gains with small funds
• Existing technology
• Requires national initiative / political initiative
• Creates new industry
• New tax instruments for road transports
Figures:
Railroad -> Electrified Railroad, Road -> Electrified Road
Thanks to
SCANIA, COOP, Swedish Motorways and EQDigital
For photographs and visualizations
Contact
anders.nordqvist@elvag.se
harry.frank@kva.se
per.ranch@grontmij.se
Additional pictures follow >
ÅDT = annual average daily traffic
(yellow box)
INFRASTRUCTURE:
1 380 km each 10 million SEK ............ 13.8 BILLION SEK
VEHICLES
5 000 pcs each 1.5 million SEK .. ...... ... 7.5 BILLIONS SEK
TOTAL 21.3 BILLION SEK
(green box)
GREEN ELECTRICITY -> 1.3 million tonnes CO2 / yearly