{"id":56772,"date":"2018-04-16T05:09:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T05:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=56772"},"modified":"2018-04-16T05:09:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T05:09:00","slug":"worlds-first-electrified-road-that-charges-vehicles-on-the-run-opens-in-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2018\/04\/16\/worlds-first-electrified-road-that-charges-vehicles-on-the-run-opens-in-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first electrified road that charges vehicles on the run opens in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s first electrified road that charges electric cars and trucks as they drive on has opened in Stockholm, Sweden. Although it stretches to just about 2 kilometers, it is undoubtedly an impressive step towards achieving the country&#8217;s target of going &#8216;fossil fuel-free&#8217; by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>This electrified road is Sweden\u2019s proof-of-concept, aiming to show that e-vehicles can be used conveniently over long distances. Once expanded to other key\u00a0infrastructure lines, such as highways and main roadways, the roads will ensure Swedes can charge their\u00a0electric vehicles wherever they are.<\/p>\n<p>The road transfers electricity from an underground rail into the batteries of cars through a flexible arm attached to the charging vehicle. It might sound risky, but the team behind the project says it\u2019s not any more dangerous than a bowl of meatballs with cranberry sauce.<\/p>\n<p>Read full news here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zmescience.com\/ecology\/sweden-electric-road-723524\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zmescience.com\/ecology\/sweden-electric-road-723524\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s first electrified road that charges electric cars and trucks as they drive on has opened in Stockholm, Sweden. Although it stretches to just about 2 kilometers, it is undoubtedly an impressive step towards achieving the country&#8217;s target of going &#8216;fossil fuel-free&#8217; by 2030. This electrified road is Sweden\u2019s proof-of-concept, aiming to show that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}