Pennsylvania officials are working with experts on a pilot project to electrify part of the highway, so drivers can power up while they drive.
The solar field near Jeannette is the first of many as the turnpike tries to cut costs, improve the environment and provide facilities for electric vehicle owners, said Keith Jack, the turnpike’s manager of facilities operations. The project dovetails with a state auditor general’s office report last week that called for the agency to be innovative to help eliminate its $13.2 billion debt.
Utah State’s ASPIRE center will begin installing a 50-meter demonstration section at its Logan, Utah, test track in the next two weeks, said Tallis Blalack, the center’s director. Working with California wireless provider Electreon, the center intends to install a one-mile electrified section of road surface in central Detroit next year in conjunction with the University of Michigan.
—Over the next 18 months, it expects to design and establish a parking space at its Harrisburg headquarters that would allow electric vehicles to recharge just by parking above a charging coil. “It won’t work for everyone, but it will facilitate charging for a large portion of our customer base,” he said.Blalack said that kind of collaboration is a must if the country is to reach his vision of a fully electrified road system that could generate enough revenue to cover the cost of upgrades to the nation’s roads and bridges.
“The real challenge for us is to electrify heavy-duty vehicles,” he said. “If we’re going to help to address climate change and greenhouse gases, we’re going to have to figure that out.”
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